^{11 Ref} So I say, Were their steps made hard in order that they might have a fall? In no way: but by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, so that they might be moved to envy.

^{12 Ref} Now, if their fall is the wealth of the world, and their loss the wealth of the Gentiles, how much greater will be the glory when they are made full?

^{13 Ref} But I say to you, Gentiles, in so far as I am the Apostle of the Gentiles, I make much of my position:

^{14 Ref} If in any way those who are of my flesh may be moved to envy, so that some of them may get salvation by me.

^{15 Ref} For, if by their putting away, the rest of men have been made friends with God, what will their coming back again be, but life from the dead?

^{16 Ref} And if the first-fruit is holy, so is the mass: and if the root is holy, so are the branches.

^{17 Ref} But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, an olive-tree of the fields, were put in among them, and were given a part with them in the root by which the olive-tree is made fertile,