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-\v 1 If I should ask, "Has God rejected his people the Jews?" The answer would be, "Certainly not!" Remember that I also belong to the people of Israel. I am a descendant of Abraham, and I belong to the tribe of Benjamin, but God has not rejected me!
+\v 1 If I should ask, "Has God rejected his people the Jews?" the answer would be, "Certainly not!" Remember that I also belong to the people of Israel. I am a descendant of Abraham, and I belong to the tribe of Benjamin, but God has not rejected me!
 \v 2 No, God has not rejected his people, whom he chose long ago to be people whom he would bless in a special way. Remember that Elijah mistakenly complained to God about the people of Israel, as the scriptures say:
 \v 3 "Lord, they have killed the rest of your prophets, and they have destroyed your altars. I am the only one who believes in you who remains alive, and now they are trying to kill me!"
 
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 \v 11 If someone should ask, "When the Jews sinned by not believing in Christ, did that mean they will always be apart from God?" I would reply, "No, they have certainly not separated themselves from God permanently! Instead, because they sinned, God is saving Gentiles in order to cause the Jews to envy the way he blesses Gentiles, so that they will ask Christ to save them."
-\v 12 When the Jews rejected Christ, the result was that God abundantly blessed the other people in the world by offering them the opportunity to believe. And when the Jews failed spiritually, the result was that God abundantly blessed the Gentiles. Since that is true, think how wonderful it will be when the complete number of the Jews whom God has chosen will believe in Christ !
+\v 12 When the Jews rejected Christ, the result was that God abundantly blessed the other people in the world by offering them the opportunity to believe. And when the Jews failed spiritually, the result was that God abundantly blessed the Gentiles. Since that is true, think how wonderful it will be when the complete number of the Jews whom God has chosen will believe in Christ!
 
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 \v 14 But I also hope that by my labors I will make my fellow Jews jealous, with the result that some of them will believe and thus be saved.
 
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-\v 15 God has rejected most of my fellow Jews because they refused to believe, with the result that he made peace between himself and other people in the world. If that is what happened after most of the Jews rejected Christ, think about the excellent things that will happen after they trust in him. It will be like they have risen from the realm of the dead!
-\v 16 Just like the whole lump of dough will belong to God if people offer to God the bread baked from the first part of it. And just like the branches of a tree will belong to God if the root belongs to God.
+\v 15 God has rejected most of my fellow Jews because they refused to believe, with the result that he made peace between himself and other people in the world. If that is what happened after most of the Jews rejected Christ, think about the excellent things that will happen after they trust in him. It will be like they have risen from the realm of the dead—
+\v 16 just like the whole lump of dough will belong to God if people offer to God the bread baked from the first part of it, and just like the branches of a tree will belong to God if the root belongs to God!
 
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-\v 17 God has rejected many of the Jews in the same way that people break off dead branches from a tree. And each of you Gentiles whom God has accepted is like a branch of a uncultivated olive tree that someone spliced into the trunk of a cultivated olive tree. God has caused you to benefit from how he blessed our first Jewish ancestors, just as branches benefit from the sap that comes from the root of a cultivated olive tree.
-\v 18 However, you Gentiles must not despise the Jews whom God rejected, even though they are like the branches that someone breaks off from the tree! If you want to boast because of how God has saved you, remember this: Branches do not feed a root. Instead, the root feeds the branches. Similarly, God has helped you because of what you have received from the Jews! You have given the Jews nothing that helps them.
+\v 17 God has rejected many of the Jews in the same way that people break off dead branches from a tree. And each of you Gentiles whom God has accepted is like a branch of an uncultivated olive tree that someone spliced into the trunk of a cultivated olive tree. God has caused you to benefit from how he blessed our first Jewish ancestors, just as branches benefit from the sap that comes from the root of a cultivated olive tree.
+\v 18 However, you Gentiles must not despise the Jews whom God rejected, even though they are like the branches that someone breaks off from the tree! If you want to boast because of how God has saved you, remember this: Branches do not feed a root. Instead, the root feeds the branches. Similarly, God has helped you because of what you have received from the Jews! You have not given the Jews anything that helps them.
 
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 \v 19 Maybe you will say to me, "God rejected the Jews like people break bad branches off a tree and throw them away, and he has done this in order that he might accept us Gentiles, just like people put branches of a wild olive tree into the trunk of a good tree."
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 \v 23 And if the Jews believe in Christ, God will also put them back into the tree again, because God is able to do that.
-\v 24 You Gentiles who were previously apart from God have benefited from the ways in which God blessed the Jews. That is like taking branches that someone has cut from a wild olive tree—a tree that just grew without anyone planting it— and, contrary to what people usually do, splicing them into a cultivated olive tree. So God will much more readily receive back the Jews because they belonged to him before! That will be like putting the original branches that someone cut off, back into the olive tree to which they originally belonged!
+\v 24 You Gentiles who were previously apart from God have benefited from the ways in which God blessed the Jews. That is like taking branches that someone has cut from a wild olive tree—a tree that just grew without anyone planting it—and, contrary to what people usually do, splicing them into a cultivated olive tree. So God will much more readily receive back the Jews because they belonged to him before! That will be like putting the original branches that someone cut off back into the olive tree to which they originally belonged!
 
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 \v 26 And then God will save all of Israel. Then these words in the scriptures will become true:
 \p "The one who sets his people free will come from where God is among the Jews. He will forgive the sins of the people of Israel."
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-\v 27 And as God says,
+\v 27 And God also says,
 \p "The covenant that I will make with them is one by which I will forgive their sins."
 
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 \v 28 The Jews rejected the good news about Christ and now God treats them as his enemies. But that has helped you Gentiles. But because they are the people whom God chose, God still loves them because of what he promised to do for their ancestors.
-\v 29 He still loves them, because he never changed his mind about what he has promised to give them, and about how he has called them to be his own people.
+\v 29 He still loves them, because he never changed his mind about what he has promised to give them and how he has called them to be his own people.
 
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 \v 30 You once disobeyed God, but now he has acted mercifully toward you because the Jews disobeyed him.
-\v 31 Similarly, now they have disobeyed God. The result is that in the very same way in which he acted mercifully toward you, he will act mercifully toward them again.
+\v 31 Similarly, they have now disobeyed God. The result is that in the very same way in which he acted mercifully toward you, he will act mercifully toward them again.
 \v 32 God has declared and proved that all people, both Jews and Gentiles, are disobedient to him. He has done this so that he may show mercy to all of them.
 
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-\v 33 I marvel how great are the wise things that God has done and what he has always known. No one can understand them or know them fully.
+\v 33 I marvel how great the wise things are that God has done and what he has always known. No one can understand them or know them fully.
 \v 34 I remember the scriptures that say, "No one has ever known what the Lord thinks. No one has ever been able to give him advice."
 
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-\v 35 And, "No one has given anything to God in a way that God had to reward him."
+\v 35 Also, "No one has given anything to God in a way that God had to reward him."
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 \v 36 God is the one who created all things. He is also the one who sustains all things. The reason that he created them was that they might praise him. May all people honor him forever. May it be so.
 
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 \v 4 Although a person has one body, it consists of many parts. All of the parts are necessary for the body, but they do not all function the same way.
-\v 5 Similarly, we, although we are many, are united into one group because we are joined to Christ, and we belong to one another. So no one should act as though he is more important than the others.
+\v 5 Similarly, although we are many, we are united into one group because we are joined to Christ, and we belong to one another. So no one should act as though he is more important than the others.
 
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 \v 6 Instead, since each one of us can do different things because God makes us different from each other, we should do them eagerly and cheerfully. Those of us to whom God gives messages for others should speak in a way that fits our trust in God.
 \v 7 Those whom God has enabled to serve others should do that. Those whom God has enabled to teach his truth should do that.
-\v 8 Those whom God has enabled to encourage others should do it wholeheartedly. Those whom God has enabled to give things to others, should do so without holding back. Those whom God has enabled to manage others should do it, and do it with care. Those whom God has enabled to help the needy should do it cheerfully.
+\v 8 Those whom God has enabled to encourage others should do it wholeheartedly. Those whom God has enabled to give things to others should do so without holding back. Those whom God has enabled to manage others should do it, and do it with care. Those whom God has enabled to help the needy should do it cheerfully.
 
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 \v 13 If any of God's people lacks anything, share with them what you have. Be creative in hosting others.
 
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-\v 14 Ask God to be kind to those who persecute you because you believe in Jesus. Ask him to be kind to them; do not ask him to cause bad things to happen to them.
+\v 14 Ask God to be kind to those who persecute you because you believe in Jesus. Ask God to be kind to them; do not ask him to cause bad things to happen to them.
 \v 15 If they are joyful, you should rejoice with them. If they are sad, you should be sad with them.
 \v 16 Desire for others what you desire for yourselves. Do not be proud in how you think; instead, be friends with people who seem unimportant. Do not consider yourselves wise.
 
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-\v 19 My fellow believers, whom I love, do not do evil in return when people do evil to you. Instead, allow God to punish them. The scriptures say, "'I will pay back those who do evil. It is my right to pay them back,' says the Lord."
-\v 20 Instead of doing evil to those who have done evil to you, do as the scriptures teach: "If your enemies are hungry, feed them. If they are thirsty, give them something to drink. By doing that, you will cause them to feel the pain of shame and perhaps they will change their attitude toward you."
+\v 19 My fellow believers, whom I love, do not do evil deeds in return when people do evil deeds to you. Instead, allow God to punish them. The scriptures say, "'I will pay back those who do evil deeds. It is my right to pay them back,' says the Lord."
+\v 20 Instead of doing evil deeds to those who have done evil deeds to you, do as the scriptures teach: "If your enemies are hungry, feed them. If they are thirsty, give them something to drink. By doing that, you will cause them to feel the pain of shame and perhaps they will change their attitude toward you."
 \v 21 Do not let evil deeds that others have done to you overcome you. Instead, do for them better than what they have done to you.
 
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