11 ¹¹ I now ask, did their failure mean complete downfall? Far from it! Because they offended, salvation has come to the Gentiles, to stir Israel to emulation. 11 ¹² But if their offence means the enrichment of the world, and if their falling-off means the enrichment of the Gentiles, how much more their coming to full strength!

11 ¹³ But I have something to say to you Gentiles. I am a missionary to the Gentiles, and as such I give all honour to that ministry 11 ¹⁴ when I try to stir emulation in the men of my own race, and so to save some of them. 11 ¹⁵ For if their rejection has meant the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean? 11 ¹⁶ Nothing less than life from the dead! If the first portion of dough is consecrated, so is the whole lump.

11 ¹⁷ If the root is consecrated, so are the branches. But if some of the branches have been lopped off, and you, a wild olive, have been grafted in among them, and have come to share the same root and sap as the olive, do not make yourself superior to the branches. 11 ¹⁸ If you do so, remember that it is not you who sustain the root: the root sustains you.
11 ¹⁹ You will say, 'Branches were lopped off so that I might be grafted in.' 11 ²⁰ Very well: they were lopped off for lack of faith, and by faith you hold your place. Put away your pride, and be on your guard; 11 ²¹ for if God did not spare the native branches, no more will he spare you. 11 ²² Observe the kindness and the severity of God—severity to those who fell away, divine kindness to you, if only you remain within its scope; otherwise you too will be cut off, 11 ²³ whereas they, if they do not continue faithless, will be grafted in; for it is in God's power to graft them in again. 11 ²⁴ For if you were cut from your native wild olive and against all nature grafted into the cultivated olive, how much more readily will they, the natural olive-branches, be grafted into their native stock!