20That is so. They were broken off because of unbelief, but you are there because of faith. So do not become haughty, but stand in awe.^o 21For if God did not spare the natural branches, [perhaps] he will not spare you either.^p 22See, then, the kindness and severity of God: severity toward those who fell, but God’s kindness to you, provided you remain in his kindness; otherwise you too will be cut off.^q 23And they also, if they do not remain in unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.^r 24For if you were cut from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated one, how much more will they who belong to it by nature be grafted back into their own olive tree.

God’s Irrevocable Call.^* 25I do not want you to be unaware of this mystery, brothers, so that you will not become wise [in] your own estimation: a hardening has come upon Israel in part, until the full number of the Gentiles comes in,^s 26and thus all Israel will be saved,^t as it is written:^u

“The deliverer will come out of Zion,

he will turn away godlessness from Jacob;

27and this is my covenant with them

when I take away their sins.”^v

28In respect to the gospel, they are enemies on your account; but in respect to election, they are beloved because of the patriarchs.^w 29For the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable.^x

Triumph of God’s Mercy. 30^* Just as you once disobeyed God but have now received mercy because of their disobedience, 31so they have now disobeyed in order that, by virtue of the mercy shown to you, they too may [now] receive mercy. 32For God delivered all to disobedience, that he might have mercy upon all.^y