24 In spite of the fact that you have been cut from a wild olive tree, you have been grafted onto a cultivated one. So wouldn’t it be easier for these natural branches to be grafted onto the olive tree they belong to?
25 Brothers and sisters, I want you to understand this mystery so that you won’t become arrogant. The minds of some Israelites have become closed until all of God’s non-Jewish people are included.
26 In this way Israel as a whole will be saved, as Scripture says,“The Savior will come from Zion.He will remove godlessness from Jacob.
27 My promise to them will be fulfilledwhen I take away their sins.”
28 The Good News made the Jewish people enemies because of you. But by God’s choice they are loved because of their ancestors.
29 God never changes his mind when he gives gifts or when he calls someone.
30 In the past, you disobeyed God. But now God has been merciful to you because of the disobedience of the Jewish people.