Twentieth_Century(i)
19 But branches, you will say, were broken off, so that I might be grafted in.
20 True; it was because of their want of faith that they were broken off, and it is because of your faith that you are standing. Do not think too highly of yourself, but beware.
21 For, if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.
22 See, then, both the goodness and the severity of God--his severity towards those who fell, and his goodness towards you, provided that you continue to confide in that goodness; otherwise you, also, will be cut off.
23 And they, too, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in; for God has it in his power to graft them in again.
24 If you were cut off from your natural stock--a wild olive-- and were grafted, contrary to the course of nature, upon a good olive, much more will they--the natural branches--be grafted back into their parent tree.
25 Brothers, for fear that you should think too highly of yourselves, I want you to recognize the truth, hitherto hidden, that the callousness which has come over Israel is only partial, and will continue only till the whole Gentile world has been gathered in.
26 And then all Israel shall be saved. As Scripture says--'From Zion will come the Deliverer; he will banish ungodliness from Jacob.
27 And they shall see the fulfillment of my Covenant, when I have taken away their sins.'