For if the first fruit is holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root is holy, so are the branches.

And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive-tree, art ingrafted among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive-tree;

Boast not against the branches. But if thou boastest, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.

Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be ingrafted.

For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.

For if thou wast cut out of the olive-tree which is wild by nature, and wast ingrafted contrary to nature into a good olive-tree; how much more shall these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive-tree?