Romans 11:13-22

Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Insofar as I am an apostle to the Gentiles,  I magnify my ministry, if I might somehow make my own people  , jealous and save some of them.  For if their rejection brings reconciliation  to the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?  Now if the firstfruits are holy,  so is the whole batch. And if the root is holy, so are the branches. Now if some of the branches were broken off,  and you, though a wild olive branch, were grafted in among them  and have come to share in the rich root  of the cultivated olive tree, do not boast that you are better than those branches. But if you do boast — you do not sustain the root, but the root sustains you.  Then you will say,  “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.” True enough; they were broken off because of unbelief, but you stand by faith.  Do not be arrogant, but beware,  , because if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you either. Therefore, consider God’s kindness and severity: severity toward those who have fallen but God’s kindness  toward you — if you remain in his kindness.  Otherwise you too will be cut off.