Murdock(i)
16 For, if the first-fruits are holy, then the mass is also: and if the root is holy, then also the branches.
17 And if some of the branches were plucked off; and thou, an olive from the desert, wast in-grafted in their place, and hast become a participator of the root and fatness of the olive-tree;
18 do not glory over the branches. For if thou gloriest, thou sustainest not the root, but the root sustaineth thee.
19 And shouldst thou say, The branches were plucked off, that I might be grafted into their place.
20 Very true. They were plucked off, because they believed not; and thou standest by faith. Be not exalted in thy mind, but fear.
21 For if God spared not the natural branches, perhaps he will not spare you.
22 Behold now the benignity and the severity of God: on them who fell, severity; but on thee, benignity, if thou continuest in that benignity; and if not, thou also wilt be plucked off.
23 And they, if they do not continue in their destitution of faith, even they will be grafted in; for God is able to graft them in again.
24 For if thou wast plucked from the wild olive-tree, which was natural to thee, and wast grafted, contrary to thy nature, into a good olive-tree; how much more may they be grafted into their natural olive-tree?
25 And that ye, my brethren, may not be wise in your own apprehension, I wish you to know this mystery, that blindness of heart hath in some measure befallen Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles shall come in:
26 and then, will all Israel live. As it is written: A deliverer will come from Zion, and will turn away iniquity from Jacob.
27 And then will they have the covenant that proceedeth from me, when I shall have forgiven their sins.
28 Now, in the gospel, they are enemies for your sake; but in the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sake.
29 For God is not changeable in his free gift and in his calling.