Romans 11:13-24

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹³ For I say to you, Gentiles: as long indeed as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I will honour my ministry,

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

¹⁵ For if the loss of them be the reconciliation of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?

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

¹⁷ And if some of the branches be broken, and thou, being a wild olive, art ingrafted in them, and art made partaker of the root, and of the fatness of the olive tree,

¹⁸ Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.

¹⁹ Thou wilt say then: The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.

²⁰ Well: because of unbelief they were broken off. But thou standest by faith: be not highminded, but fear.

²¹ For if God hath not spared the natural branches, fear lest perhaps he also spare not thee.

²² See then the goodness and the severity of God: towards them indeed that are fallen, the severity; but towards thee, the goodness of God, if thou abide in goodness, otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.

²³ And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again.

²⁴ For if thou wert cut out of the wild olive tree, which is natural to thee; and, contrary to nature, were grafted into the good olive tree; how much more shall they that are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?