13 For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:

14 If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.

15 For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?

16 For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.

17 And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert grafted in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;

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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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