¹⁷And if certain of the branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wast graffed in among them, and a fellow-partaker of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree didst become— ¹⁸do not boast against the branches; and if thou dost boast, thou dost not bear the root, but the root thee! ¹⁹Thou wilt say, then, ‘The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in;’ right! ²⁰by unbelief they were broken off, and thou hast stood by faith; be not high-minded, but be fearing; ²¹for if God the natural branches did not spare—lest perhaps He also shall not spare thee. ²²Lo, then, goodness and severity of God—upon those indeed who fell, severity; and upon thee, goodness, if thou mayest remain in the goodness, otherwise, thou also shalt be cut off. ²³And those also, if they may not remain in unbelief, shall be graffed in, for God is able again to graff them in; ²⁴for if thou, out of the olive tree, wild by nature, wast cut out, and, contrary to nature, wast graffed into a good olive tree, how much rather shall they, who are according to nature, be graffed into their own olive tree?

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