13 Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch then as (A)I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry 14 in order somehow to make my fellow Jews jealous, and (B)thus save some of them. 15 For if their rejection means (C)the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead? 16 (D)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 (E)some of the branches were broken off, and you, (F)although a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing root[a] of the olive tree,

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 11:17 Greek root of richness; some manuscripts richness

13 I am talking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch as I am the apostle to the Gentiles,(A) I take pride in my ministry 14 in the hope that I may somehow arouse my own people to envy(B) and save(C) some of them. 15 For if their rejection brought reconciliation(D) to the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?(E) 16 If the part of the dough offered as firstfruits(F) 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,(G) and you, though a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others(H) and now share in the nourishing sap from the olive root,

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