²⁶ To you ^(A)first, God, having raised up His Servant Jesus, sent Him to bless you, ^(B)in turning away every one of you from your iniquities.”

^18 (A)In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, ^(B)because you have obeyed My voice.”

³ For ^(A)I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my ^[a]countrymen according to the flesh, ⁴ who are Israelites, ^(B)to whom pertain the adoption, ^(C)the glory, ^(D)the covenants, ^(E)the giving of the law, ^(F)the service of God, and ^(G)the promises;

¹⁶ For if ^(A)the firstfruit is holy, the lump is also holy; and if the root is holy, so are the branches. ¹⁷ And if ^(B)some of the branches were broken off, ^(C)and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them became a partaker of the root and ^[a]fatness of the olive tree, ^18 (D)do not boast against the branches. But if you do boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you.

¹⁹ You will say then, “Branches were broken off that I might be grafted in.” ²⁰ Well said. Because of ^(E)unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Do not be haughty, but fear. ²¹ For if God did not spare the natural branches, He may not spare you either. ²² Therefore consider the goodness and severity of God: on those who fell, severity; but toward you, ^[b]goodness, ^(F)if you continue in His goodness. Otherwise ^(G)you also will be cut off. ²³ And they also, ^(H)if they do not continue in unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. ²⁴ For if you were cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, who are natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?