10. let their eyes be darkened so that they may not see,and make their backs bend continually.”
11. I ask then, they did not stumble into an irrevocable fall, did they? Absolutely not! But by their transgression salvation has come to the Gentiles, to make Israel jealous.
12. Now if their transgression means riches for the world and their defeat means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their full restoration bring?
13. Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Seeing that I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry,
14. if somehow I could provoke my people to jealousy and save some of them.
15. For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?
16. If the first portion of the dough offered is holy, then the whole batch is holy, and if the root is holy, so too are the branches.
17. Now if some of the branches were broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among them and participated in the richness of the olive root,