6. And if by grace, then it is no longer by works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace. But if it is by works, then is it no longer by grace; otherwise work would no longer be work.
7. What then? Israel has not obtained what it was seeking. But the elect obtained it, and the rest were hardened.
8. As it is written: “God has given them a spirit of slumber,eyes that would not seeand ears that would not hear,to this very day.”
9. And David says: “Let their table become a snare and a trap,a stumbling block and a retribution to them.
10. Let their eyes be darkened, so that they may not see,and always bow down their backs.”
11. I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid! But through their transgression salvation has come to the Gentiles, to make them jealous.
12. Now if their transgression means riches for the world, and their failure means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their fullness mean?
13. For I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch as I am the apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry,
14. if somehow I may make my kinsmen jealous and may save some of them.
15. For if their rejection means the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?
16. If the first portion of the dough is holy, the batch is also holy. And 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 shoot, were grafted in among them and became a partaker with them of the root and richness of the olive tree,
18. do not boast against the branches. If you boast, remember you do not sustain the root, but the root sustains you.
19. You will say then, “The branches were broken off, so that I might be grafted in.”
20. This is correct. They were broken off because of unbelief, but you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but fear.
21. For if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will He spare you.
22. Therefore consider the goodness and severity of God—severity toward those who fell, but goodness toward you, if you continue in His goodness. Otherwise, you also will be cut off.
23. And these also, if they do not remain in unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.
24. For if you were cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, who are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?
25. For I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, lest you be wise in your own estimation, for a partial hardening has come upon Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.
26. And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: “The Deliverer will come out of Zion,and He will remove ungodliness from Jacob”;