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I ask then, did they stumble that they might fall? Certainly not! But by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.
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Now if their fall is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fullness?
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For I speak to you who are Gentiles. Since then as I am an apostle to Gentiles, I glorify my ministry;
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if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and may save some of them.
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For if the rejection of them [is] the reconciling of the world, what would the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
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If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump. If the root is holy, so are the branches.
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But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them, and became partaker with them of the root of the richness of the olive tree;