12. Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fullness?
13. For I speak to you Gentiles, since I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify my office:
14. If by any means I may provoke to envy them who are my flesh, and might save some of them.
15. For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
16. For if the firstfruit are holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root is holy, so are the branches.
17. And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them partake of the root and fatness of the olive tree;