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## Romans 11:11-17 in Context (Verses 8–20 KJV)
 
 [8 ](/kjv/romans/11/8) (According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day.
 
 [9 ](/kjv/romans/11/9) And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:
 
 [10 ](/kjv/romans/11/10) Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway.
 
 [11 ](/kjv/romans/11/11) I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but *rather* through their fall salvation *is come* unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.
 
 [12 ](/kjv/romans/11/12) Now if the fall of them *be* the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?
 
 [13 ](/kjv/romans/11/13) For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:
 
 [14 ](/kjv/romans/11/14) If by any means I may provoke to emulation *them which are* my flesh, and might save some of them.
 
 [15 ](/kjv/romans/11/15) For if the casting away of them *be* the reconciling of the world, what *shall* the receiving *of them be*, but life from the dead?
 
 [16 ](/kjv/romans/11/16) For if the firstfruit *be* holy, the lump *is* also *holy*: and if the root *be* holy, so *are* the branches.
 
 [17 ](/kjv/romans/11/17) And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
 
 [18 ](/kjv/romans/11/18) Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.
 
 [19 ](/kjv/romans/11/19) Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in.
 
 [20 ](/kjv/romans/11/20) Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:
 
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