Now, if the first fruit is holy, the mass is holy also: and if the root is holy, the branches are holy also.

And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, have been grafted in among them, and partake with them of the root and fatness of the olive,

boast not against the branches; but if you boast, boast not that you bear the root, but that the root bears you.

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

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

For if you were cut out from an olive-tree that is wild by nature, and were grafted, against nature, into a good olive, how much more shall these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive?