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

³⁷ For,

¹⁹ You will say then, “Branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in.” ²⁰ Granted. But they were broken off because of unbelief, and you stand by faith.^(A) Do not be arrogant,^(B) but tremble.^{(C) 21} For if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you either.

²² Consider therefore the kindness^(D) and sternness of God: sternness to those who fell, but kindness to you, provided that you continue^(E) in his kindness. Otherwise, you also will be cut off.^{(F) 23} And if they do not persist in unbelief, they will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.^{(G) 24} After all, if you were cut out of an olive tree that is wild by nature, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree,^(H) how much more readily will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree!

All Israel Will Be Saved

²⁵ I do not want you to be ignorant^(I) of this mystery,^(J) brothers and sisters, so that you may not be conceited:^(K) Israel has experienced a hardening^(L) in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in,^{(M) 26} and in this way^[a] all Israel will be saved.^(N) As it is written:

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) 12} But if their transgression means riches for the world, and their loss means riches for the Gentiles,^(D) how much greater riches will their full inclusion bring!

¹³ I am talking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch as I am the apostle to the Gentiles,^(E) I take pride in my ministry ¹⁴ in the hope that I may somehow arouse my own people to envy^(F) and save^(G) some of them. ¹⁵ For if their rejection brought reconciliation^(H) to the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?^{(I) 16} If the part of the dough offered as firstfruits^(J) is holy, then the whole batch is holy; if the root is holy, so are the branches.

¹⁷ If some of the branches have been broken off,^(K) and you, though a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others^(L) and now share in the nourishing sap from the olive root,

Jesus Curses a Fig Tree^(A)

¹⁸ Early in the morning, as Jesus was on his way back to the city, he was hungry. ¹⁹ Seeing a fig tree by the road, he went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. Then he said to it, “May you never bear fruit again!” Immediately the tree withered.^(B)

⁶ “This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘In a little while^(A) I will once more shake the heavens and the earth,^(B) the sea and the dry land.