But if some of the branches were broken off, and thou a wild-olive wert grafted in among them, and art made a partaker together with them of the root and fatness of the olive; boast not against the branches:

Now if the first-fruits be holy, so is the whole heap: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.

Wilt thou say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in?

For if God spared not the natural branches, neither would He spare thee.

For if thou wert cut out of the wild olive, which was natural to thee, and contrary to nature were grafted into a good olive; how much more shall these who are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive-tree?