18 Glory not against the branches; but if thou gloriest, it is not thou who bearest the root, but
the root thee.
19 Thou wilt then say, “Broken off have been the branches, that I might be ingrafted.”
20 Be it so: for unbelief have they been broken off, and thou by faith standest; be not
high-minded, but fear:
21 For if God spared not the natural branches, beware lest he should not spare thee.
22 See then the kindness and the severity of God; towards those indeed who have fallen, severity;
but towards thee kindness, if thou continuest in his kindness; otherwise thou also shalt be cut off:
23 And they, if they remain not in unbelief, shall be ingrafted; for God is able to ingraft them
again.
24 For if thou hast been cut off from the wild olive, which is so by nature, and hast contrary to
nature been ingrafted in the true olive, much more shall they, according to nature, be ingrafted in
their own olive.
25 I would not indeed, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should
be proud among yourselves, that blindness has in part happened to Israel, until the fulness of the
Gentiles shall come in:
26 And so all Israel shall be saved, as it is written, “Come from Sion shall the Deliverer, and
shall turn away impieties from Jacob;
27 And this shall be my covenant with them, when I shall take away their sins.”
28 As to the gospel they are indeed enemies on your account; but as to election they are beloved
on account of the fathers;
29 For without repentance are the gifts and the calling of God.
30 As indeed ye also formerly believed not God, but have now obtained mercy through their
unbelief;
31 So also they have not now believed, because ye have obtained mercy, that they may also
obtain mercy:
32 For God has shut up all under unbelief, that he might show mercy to all.
33 O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and of the knowledge of God! how
incomprehensible are his judgments and unsearchable his ways!
34 Who indeed has known the mind of the Lord? or who has been to him a counselor?
35 Or, who has first given to him, and it shall be rendered to him again?
36 For from him and through him and for him are all things: to him be glory for ever. Amen.
CHAPTER 12
1 I beseech you then, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice,
holy, acceptable to God, as your rational service.
2 And conform not yourselves to this world, but be ye transformed by the renovation of your
mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
3 I indeed say, through the grace which has been given to me, to every one of you, that he be
not above measure wise, beyond what he ought to be wise; but that he be wise unto sobriety, as
God has to each distributed the measure of faith.
4 For as in one body we have many members, but all the members have not the same office;