📜WEB · Romans 11:15

What does Romans 11:15 mean?

"For if the rejection of them is the reconciling of the world, what would their acceptance be, but life from the dead?"

— Romans 11:15 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

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Now if their fall is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fullness?

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For I speak to you who are Gentiles. Since then as I am an apostle to Gentiles, I glorify my ministry;

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if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and may save some of them.

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For if the rejection of them is the reconciling of the world, what would their acceptance be, but life from the dead?

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If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump. If the root is holy, so are the branches.

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But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them, and became partaker with them of the root and of the richness of the olive tree;

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don’t boast over the branches. But if you boast, it is not you who support the root, but the root supports you.

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