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In verses thirteen to fifteen, Paul explains he was the apostle to the Gentiles. Paul was appointed as a missionary to the Gentiles. Paul reminded his Jewish brothers of this fact, hoping they would accept the gospel. The Jews had been rejected, and thus the Gentiles were being offered salvation. In verses seventeen to twenty-four, Paul warns the Gentile Christians. Paul warns them to not feel superior because God rejected some Jews. Abraham’s faith was the root of a productive tree, and the Jews are the tree’s natural branches. Because of their rebellion, the Jews were the broken branches. Gentiles have been grafted into the tree like a wild olive shoot. Both Jews and Gentiles share the tree’s nourishment based on their faith in God. Neither one of them can be saved based on their heritage.

Romans 11:13-24
13 I am talking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch as I am the apostle to the Gentiles, I take pride in my ministry 14 in the hope that I may somehow arouse my own people to envy and save some of them. 15 For if their rejection brought reconciliation to the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead? 16 If the part of the dough offered as first-fruits is holy, then the whole batch is holy; if the root is holy, so are the branches.
17 If some of the branches have been broken off, and you, though a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing sap from the olive root, 18 do not consider yourself to be superior to those other branches. If you do, consider this: You do not support the root, but the root supports you. 19 You will say then, “Branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in.” 20 Granted. But they were broken off because of unbelief, and you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but tremble. 21 For if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you either.
22 Consider therefore the kindness and sternness of God: sternness to those who fell, but kindness to you, provided that you continue in his kindness. Otherwise, you also will be cut off. 23 And if they do not persist in unbelief, they will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. 24 After all, if you were cut out of an olive tree that is wild by nature, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more readily will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree!