And, if the first-fruit is holy, so also is the lump; and, if the root is holy, so also are the branches.

And, if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them, and became a joint-partaker of the root and of the fatness of the Olive tree;

boast not against the branches. But, if you boast, it is not you that bear the root; but the root, you.

You will say, then, "The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in."

For, if God spared not the natural branches, neither will He spare you.

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