³¹ even so these also have now been disobedient, that by the mercy shown to you they may also obtain mercy.

¹⁶ But they didn't all listen to the glad news. For Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed our report?"

¹⁵ For if the rejection of them is the reconciling of the world, what would their acceptance be, but life from the dead?

²⁵ For I don't desire, brothers,{The word for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."} to have you ignorant of this mystery, so that you won't be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,