As for you Gentiles. The church at Rome was mostly made up of Gentiles. You disobeyed God in the past. See 1 Corinthians 6:9-11. Because the Jews disobeyed. It is an important fact of Paul's theology that God's choosing of the Jews will never be revoked - that is, that the "door of mercy" will always be open for them (Romans 11:23). The Gentiles must not think the Jews are under God's special curse, and to prevent this, Paul shows that the disobedience of the Jews brought the chance to be saved to the Gentiles.

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