¹⁷And if some of the branches be broken and thou, being a wild olive, art ingrafted in them and art made partaker of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree:

¹⁸Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root: but the root thee.

¹⁹Thou wilt say then: The branches were broken off that I might be grafted in.

²⁰Well: because of unbelief they were broken off. But thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear.

²¹For if God hath not spared the natural branches, fear lest perhaps also he spare not thee.

²²See then the goodness and the severity of God: towards them indeed that are fallen, the severity; but towards thee, the goodness of God, if thou abide in goodness. Otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.

²³And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again.

²⁴For if thou were cut out of the wild olive tree, which is natural to thee; and, contrary to nature, wert grafted into the good olive tree: how much more shall they that are the natural branches be grafted into their own olive tree?

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