⁹ Only be careful,^(A) and watch yourselves closely so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen or let them fade from your heart as long as you live. Teach^(B) them to your children^(C) and to their children after them.

Psalm 51^[a]

For the director of music. A psalm of David. When the prophet Nathan came to him after David had committed adultery with Bathsheba.^(A)

²² You Samaritans worship what you do not know;^(A) we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.^(B)

² Much in every way!^(A) First of all, the Jews have been entrusted with the very words of God.^(B)

³ For I could wish that I myself^(A) were cursed^(B) and cut off from Christ for the sake of my people,^(C) those of my own race,^{(D) 4} the people of Israel.^(E) Theirs is the adoption to sonship;^(F) theirs the divine glory,^(G) the covenants,^(H) the receiving of the law,^(I) the temple worship^(J) and the promises.^{(K) 5} Theirs are the patriarchs,^(L) and from them is traced the human ancestry of the Messiah,^(M) who is God over all,^(N) forever praised!^[a](O) Amen.

Ingrafted Branches

¹¹ Again I ask: Did they stumble so as to fall beyond recovery? Not at all!^(A) Rather, because of their transgression, salvation has come to the Gentiles^(B) to make Israel envious.^(C)

³¹ so they too have now become disobedient in order that they too may now^[a] receive mercy as a result of God’s mercy to you.

¹⁷ If some of the branches have been broken off,^(A) and you, though a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others^(B) and now share in the nourishing sap from the olive root, ¹⁸ do not consider yourself to be superior to those other branches. If you do, consider this: You do not support the root, but the root supports you.^(C)

²⁸ As far as the gospel is concerned, they are enemies^(A) for your sake; but as far as election is concerned, they are loved on account of the patriarchs,^{(B) 29} for God’s gifts and his call^(C) are irrevocable.^(D)