¹⁷Now if some of the branches were broken off, and you, although you^* were a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them and became a sharer of the root of the olive tree’s richness, ¹⁸do not boast against the branches. But if you boast against them, you do not support the root, but the root supports you. ¹⁹Then you will say, “Branches were broken off in order that I could be grafted in.” ²⁰Well said! They were broken off because of unbelief, but you stand firm because of faith. Do not think arrogant thoughts, but be afraid. ²¹For if God did not spare the natural^h branches, neither will he spare you.ⁱ ²²See, then, the kindness and severity of God: severity upon those who have fallen, but upon you the kindness of God—if you continue in his kindness, for otherwise you also will be cut off. ²³And those also, if they do not persist in unbelief, will be grafted in, because God is able to graft them in again. ²⁴For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these who are natural branches^j be grafted into their own olive tree?

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Footnotes

*Here “although” is supplied as a component of the participle (“were”) which is understood as concessive
hLiterally “according to nature”
iSome manuscripts have “perhaps he will not spare you either”
jLiterally “by nature”