³⁰ But ^(A)many who are ^(B)first will be last, and the last first.

³⁷ For,

¹⁹ Then you will say, “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.” ²⁰ That is true. They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you ^(A)stand fast through faith. So ^(B)do not become proud, but ^(C)fear. ²¹ For if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you. ²² Note then the kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen, but God's kindness to you, ^(D)provided you continue in his kindness. Otherwise ^(E)you too will be cut off. ²³ And ^(F)even they, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God has the power to graft them in again. ²⁴ For if you were cut from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, the natural branches, be grafted back into their own olive tree.

The Mystery of Israel's Salvation

^25 (G)Lest you be wise in your own sight, I do not want you to be unaware of this mystery, brothers:^{[a] (H)}a partial hardening has come upon Israel, ^(I)until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. ²⁶ And in this way all Israel will be saved, as it is written,

Gentiles Grafted In

¹¹ So I ask, did they stumble in order that they might fall? By no means! Rather, through their trespass ^(A)salvation has come to the Gentiles, so as to make Israel jealous. ¹² Now if their trespass means riches for the world, and if their failure means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their full inclusion^[a] mean!

¹³ Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch then as ^(B)I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry ¹⁴ in order somehow to make my fellow Jews jealous, and ^(C)thus save some of them. ¹⁵ For if their rejection means ^(D)the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead? ^16 (E)If the dough offered as firstfruits is holy, so is the whole lump, and if the root is holy, so are the branches.

¹⁷ But if ^(F)some of the branches were broken off, and you, ^(G)although a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing root^[b] of the olive tree,

Jesus Curses the Fig Tree

^18 (A)In the morning, as he was returning to the city, ^(B)he became hungry. ^19 (C)And seeing a fig tree by the wayside, he went to it and found nothing on it but only leaves. And he said to it, “May no fruit ever come from you again!” And the fig tree withered at once.

The Flock Doomed to Slaughter

⁶ For thus says the Lord of hosts: ^(A)Yet once more, in a little while, ^(B)I will shake the heavens and the earth and the sea and the dry land.