13For I am speaking to you Gentiles; inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify my office; 14if by any means I may provoke to emulation those who are my flesh, and may save some of them. 15For if the casting away of them is the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead? 16And if the first-fruit is holy, so also is the lump; and if the root is holy, so also are the branches. 17And if some of the branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive-tree, wert grafted in among them, and became a partaker with them of the root and the fatness of the olive-tree; 18boast not over the branches. But if thou boast, it is not thou that bearest the root, but the root thee.
19Thou wilt say then: The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in. 20Well; because of their want of faith they were broken off, and thou standest by thy faith. Be not high-minded, but fear; 21for if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.
22Behold then the goodness and severity of God; toward those who fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness; otherwise, thou also shalt be cut off. 23And they also, if they continue not in their unbelief, shall be grafted in; for God is able again to graft them in. 24For if thou wast cut out of the olive-tree which is wild by nature, and wast grafted contrary to nature into a good olive-tree; how much more shall these, who are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive-tree?
25For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits, that hardness has come upon Israel in part, until the fullness of the Gentiles come in. 26And so all Israel shall be saved; as it is written: There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer; he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob; 27and this is the covenant from me to them, when I shall take away their sins. 28As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes; but as concerning the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sakes. 29For unrepented are the gifts and the calling of God. 30For as ye in times past disobeyed God, but now obtained mercy through their disobedience; 31so also they now disobeyed through the mercy shown to you, that they also might obtain mercy. 32For God included all in disobedience[32], that he might have mercy upon all.
33Oh, the depth of the riches, and wisdom, and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out! 34For,
Who knew the mind of the Lord?
Or who became his counselor?
35Or who first gave to him, and it shall be given back to him again? 36For of him, and through him, and unto him, are all things; to him be the glory forever. Amen.
XII. I beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, well pleasing to God, which is your rational service. 2And be not conformed to this world; but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may discern what is the will of God, the good, and well pleasing, and perfect.
3For I say, through the grace given to me, to every one that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God imparted to each one the measure of faith. 4For as we have many members in one body, and all the members have not the same office; 5so we, the many, are one body in Christ, and severally members one of another. 6And having gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, [let us prophesy] according to the proportion of our faith; 7or ministry, [let us wait] on the ministry; or he that teaches, on the teaching; 8or he that exhorts, on the exhortation; he that gives, [let him do it] with simplicity; he that presides, with diligence; he that shows mercy, with cheerfulness.