11I ask then, did they stumble that they might fall? Certainly not! But by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.
12Now if their fall is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fullness?
13For I speak to you who are Gentiles. Since then as I am an apostle to Gentiles, I glorify my ministry;
14if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and may save some of them.
15For if the rejection of them [is] the reconciling of the world, what would the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
16If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump. If the root is holy, so are the branches.
17But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them, and became partaker with them of the root of the richness of the olive tree;
