Gentiles Grafted In
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I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? Certainly not! But n through their fall, to provoke them to o jealousy, salvation has come to the Gentiles.
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Now if their fall is riches for the world, and their failure riches for the Gentiles, how much more their fullness!
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For I speak to you Gentiles; inasmuch as p I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry,
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if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh and q save some of them.
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For if their being cast away is the reconciling of the world, what will their acceptance be r but life from the dead?
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For if s the firstfruit is holy, the lump is also holy; and if the root is holy, so are the branches.
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And if t some of the branches were broken off, u and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them became a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree,
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v do not boast against the branches. But if you do boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you.
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You will say then, "Branches were broken off that I might be grafted in."
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Well said. Because of w unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Do not be haughty, but fear.
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For if God did not spare the natural branches, He may not spare you either.
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Therefore consider the goodness and severity of God: on those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, x if you continue in His goodness. Otherwise y you also will be cut off.
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And they also, z if they do not continue in 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 the olive tree which is wild by nature, and were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, who are natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?
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Cross References
Isaiah 42:6
I, the LORD, have called You in righteousness, And will hold Your hand; I will keep You and give You as a covenant to the people, As a light to the Gentiles.
Isaiah 42:7
To open blind eyes, To bring out prisoners from the prison, Those who sit in darkness from the prison house.
Acts 28:28
"Therefore let it be known to you that the salvation of God has been sent to the Gentiles, and they will hear it!"
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:21
They have provoked Me to jealousy by what is not God; They have moved Me to anger by their foolish idols. But I will provoke them to jealousy by those who are not a nation; I will move them to anger by a foolish nation.
Acts 13:46
Then Paul and Barnabas grew bold and said, "It was necessary that the word of God should be spoken to you first; but since you reject it, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.
Romans 10:19
But I say, did Israel not know? First Moses says: "I will provoke you to jealousy by those who are not a nation, I will move you to anger by a foolish nation.
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Cross References
Acts 9:15
But the Lord said to him, "Go, for he is a chosen vessel of Mine to bear My name before Gentiles, kings, and the children of Israel.
Acts 22:21
"Then He said to me, 'Depart, for I will send you far from here to the Gentiles.'"
Galatians 1:16
To reveal His Son in me, that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately confer with flesh and blood.
Galatians 2:7 - 9
But on the contrary, when they saw that the gospel for the uncircumcised had been committed to me, as the gospel for the circumcised was to Peter
Ephesians 3:8
To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, this grace was given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ.
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Cross References
1 Corinthians 9:22
To the weak I became as weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.
1 Timothy 4:16
Take heed to yourself and to the doctrine. Continue in them, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.
James 5:20
Let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and cover a multitude of sins.
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Cross References
Isaiah 26:16 - 19
LORD, in trouble they have visited You, They poured out a prayer when Your chastening was upon them.
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Leviticus 23:10
Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: 'When you come into the land which I give to you, and reap its harvest, then you shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest.
James 1:18
Of His own will He brought us forth by the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures.
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Cross References
Jeremiah 11:16
The LORD called your name, Green Olive Tree, Lovely and of Good Fruit. With the noise of a great tumult He has kindled fire on it, And its branches are broken.
John 15:2
Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
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Cross References
Acts 2:39
"For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call."
Ephesians 2:12
That at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
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Cross References
1 Corinthians 10:12
Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall.
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Hebrews 3:19
So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.
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1 Corinthians 15:2
By which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word which I preached to you - unless you believed in vain.
Hebrews 3:6
But Christ as a Son over His own house, whose house we are if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end.
Hebrews 3:14
For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end.
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Cross References
John 15:2
Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
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Cross References
2 Corinthians 3:16
Nevertheless when one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
New King James Version (NKJV) Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc.