For if the firstfruit are holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root is holy, so are the branches.

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

Boast not against the branches. But if you boast, you bear not 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, take heed lest he also not spare you.

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