2020 for JESUS - Day 257: JESUS is SALVATION... FAITH... GOD...

  

Romans 11:11-24

^11 “’Again I ask:  Did they stumble so as to fall beyond recovery? Not at all! Rather, because of their transgression, SALVATION has come to the Gentiles to make Israel envious. 

¹² But if their transgression means riches for the world, and their loss means riches for the Gentiles, how much greater riches will their full inclusion bring!

¹³ I am talking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch as I am the apostle to the Gentiles, I take pride in my ministry 

¹⁴ in the hope that I may somehow arouse my own people to envy and save some of them. 

¹⁵ For if their rejection brought reconciliation to the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead? 

¹⁶ If the part of the dough offered as firstfruits is holy, then the whole batch is holy; if the root is holy, so are the branches.

¹⁷ If some of the branches have been broken off, and you, though a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing sap from the olive root, 

¹⁸ do not consider yourself to be superior to those other branches. If you do, consider this: You do not support the root, but the root supports you. 

¹⁹ You will say then, ‘Branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in.’

²⁰ Granted. But they were broken off because of unbelief, and you stand by FAITH. Do not be arrogant, but tremble. 

²¹ For if GOD did not spare the natural branches, HE will not spare you either.

²² Consider therefore the kindness and sternness of GOD:

sternness to those who fell, but kindness to you, provided that you continue in HIS kindness. Otherwise, you also will be cut off. 

²³ And if they do not persist in unbelief, they will be grafted in, for GOD is able to graft them in again. 

²⁴ After all, if you were cut out of an olive tree that is wild by nature, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more readily will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree!”