And if the first fruit holy, also the mixture: and if the root holy, also the young shoots.

And if certain of the young shoots were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert grafted in them, and wert a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree;

Act not proudly to the young shoots. And if thou boastest, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.

Thou wilt say then, That the young shoots were broken off, that I might be grafted in.

For if God spared not the young shoots according to nature, how will he either spare thee