Romans 11:11-24

Christian Standard Bible

Israel’s Rejection Not Final

¹¹ I ask, then, have they stumbled so as to fall? Absolutely not! On the contrary, by their transgression, salvation has come to the Gentiles^(A) to make Israel jealous. ¹² Now if their transgression brings riches for the world, and their failure riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their fullness bring!^(B)

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

¹⁷ Now 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^[b] of the cultivated olive tree, ¹⁸ do not boast that you are better than those branches. But if you do boast—you do not sustain the root, but the root sustains you.^{(K) 19} Then you will say,^(L) “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.” ²⁰ True enough; they were broken off because of unbelief, but you stand by faith.^(M) Do not be arrogant, but beware,^{[c](N) 21} because if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you either. ²² Therefore, 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) 23} And even they, if they do not remain in unbelief,^(R) will be grafted in, because God has the power to graft them in again. ²⁴ For if you were cut off from your native wild olive tree 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?