Romans 11:17

14 if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and may save some of them.

15 For if the rejection of them [is] the reconciling of the world, what would the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?

16 If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump. If the root is holy, so are the branches.

17 But 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;

18 don`t boast over the branches. But if you boast, it is not you who bear the root, but the root you.

19 You will say then, "Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in."

20 True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Don`t be conceited, but fear;