13. Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Seeing that I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry,
14. if somehow I could provoke my people to jealousy and save some of them.
15. For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?
16. If the first portion of the dough offered is holy, then the whole batch is holy, and if the root is holy, so too are the branches.