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Certainly not! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.","footnotes":[]},{"type":"verse","number":2,"text":"God did not reject His people, whom He foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says about Elijah, how he appealed to God against Israel:","footnotes":[]},{"type":"verse","number":3,"text":"“Lord, they have killed Your prophets and torn down Your altars. 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Inasmuch as I am the apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry","footnotes":[]},{"type":"verse","number":14,"text":"in the hope that I may provoke my own people to jealousy and save some of them.","footnotes":[]},{"type":"verse","number":15,"text":"For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?","footnotes":[]},{"type":"verse","number":16,"text":"If the first part of the dough is holy, so is the whole batch; if the root is holy, so are the branches.","footnotes":[]},{"type":"line_break"},{"type":"verse","number":17,"text":"Now if some branches have been broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others to share in the nourishment of the olive root,","footnotes":[]},{"type":"verse","number":18,"text":"do not boast over those branches. If you do, remember this: You do not support the root, but the root supports you.","footnotes":[]},{"type":"line_break"},{"type":"verse","number":19,"text":"You will say then, “Branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in.”","footnotes":[]},{"type":"verse","number":20,"text":"That is correct: They were broken off because of unbelief, but you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but be afraid.","footnotes":[]},{"type":"verse","number":21,"text":"For if God did not spare the natural branches, He will certainly not spare you either.","footnotes":[{"noteId":67,"offset":68,"text":"Or He will perhaps not; SBL, NE, and WH He will not","caller":"+"}]},{"type":"line_break"},{"type":"verse","number":22,"text":"Take notice, therefore, of the kindness and severity of God: severity to those who fell, but kindness to you, if you continue in His kindness. 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