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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;
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don`t boast over the branches. But if you boast, it is not you who bear the root, but the root you.
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You will say then, "Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in."
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True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Don`t be conceited, but fear;
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for if God didn`t spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.
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See then the goodness and severity of God. Toward those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness; otherwise you also will be cut off.
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They also, if they don`t continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.
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For if you were cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree, how much more will these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?
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For I don`t desire, brothers, to have you ignorant of this mystery, so that you won`t be wise in your own conceits, that a hardening in part has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles have come in,
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and so all Israel will be saved. Even as it is written, "There will come out of Zion the Deliverer, And he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob.
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This is my covenant to them, When I will take away their sins."
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Concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sake. But concerning the election, they are beloved for the fathers` sake.
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For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.