13 For I say to you Gentiles: Certainly, as long as I am an Apostle to the Gentiles, I will honor my ministry,
14 in such a way that I might provoke to rivalry those who are my own flesh, and so that I may save some of them.
15 For if their loss is for the reconciliation of the world, what could their return be for, except life out of death?
16 For if the first-fruit has been sanctified, so also has the whole. And if the root is holy, so also are the branches.
17 And if some of the branches are broken, and if you, being a wild olive branch, are grafted on to them, and you become a partaker of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree,
18 do not glorify yourself above the branches. For though you glory, you do not support the root, but the root supports you.
19 Therefore, you would say: The branches were broken off, so that I might be grafted on.