If some of the branches have been broken off, and yet you, although you were wild olive suckers, have been grafted in among the native branches, and been made to share the rich sap of the native olive's root,

If the first handful of dough is consecrated, so is the whole mass; if the tree's root is consecrated, so are the branches.

you must not be boasting against the natural branches. And if you do, just consider, you do not support the root, but the root supports you.

Then you will say, "Branches have been broken off for us to be grafted in."

for if God did not spare the natural branches, certainly He will not spare you.

For if you were cut off from an olive wild by nature, and contrary to nature were grafted on to a fine olive stock, how much easier will it be for the natural branches to be grafted on to their own olive stock?