Romans 11:11-24

Holman Christian Standard Bible

Israel’s Rejection Not Final

¹¹I ask, then, have they stumbled in order to fall? Absolutely not! On the contrary, by their stumbling,^[a] salvation has come to the Gentiles^(A) to make Israel jealous. ¹²Now if their stumbling^[b] brings riches for the world, and their failure riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their full number bring!^(B)

¹³Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. In view of the fact that I am an apostle to the Gentiles,^(C) I magnify my ministry, ¹⁴if I can somehow make my own people^[c]^(D) jealous and save some of them.^(E) ¹⁵For if their rejection brings reconciliation^(F) to the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?^(G) ¹⁶Now if the firstfruits offered up are holy,^(H) so is the whole batch. And if the root is holy, so are the branches.

¹⁷Now if some of the branches were broken off,^(I) and you, though a wild olive branch, were grafted in among them^(J) and have come to share in the rich root^[d] of the cultivated olive tree, ¹⁸do not brag that you are better than those branches. But if you do brag—you do not sustain the root, but the root sustains you.^(K) ¹⁹Then you will say,^(L) “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.” ²⁰True enough; they were broken off by unbelief, but you stand by faith.^(M) Do not be arrogant, but be afraid.^(N) ²¹For if God did not spare the natural branches, He will not spare you either. ²²Therefore, consider God’s kindness and severity: severity toward those who have fallen but God’s kindness^(O) toward you—if you remain in His kindness.^(P) Otherwise you too will be cut off.^(Q) ²³And even they, if they do not remain in unbelief,^(R) will be grafted in, because God has the power to graft them in again. ²⁴For if you were cut off from your native wild olive and against nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these—the natural branches—be grafted into their own olive tree?