Now if some of the branches have been broken off, and you, a wild olive branch, have been grafted in their place to share the rich root of the olive tree,

If the first part of the dough is holy, so is the whole batch. If the root is holy, so are the branches.

do not boast about being better than the other branches. If you boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you.

Then you will say, "Branches were cut off so that I could be grafted in."

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

After all, if you were cut off from what is naturally a wild olive tree, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much easier it will be for these natural branches to be grafted back into their own olive tree!