If the dough offered as firstfruits is holy, then the whole lump is holy; and if the root is holy, so are the branches.

And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among the rest to share the root of the olive tree,

do not boast over the branches. If you do boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you.

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

For if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you either.

For if you were cut out of an olive tree that is wild by nature, and were grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these natural branches be grafted back into their own olive tree!