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

if then, some of the branches are broken off, and thou like a wild olive, were grafted in their place to partake of the root and sap of the olivestock;

don't triumph over the branches: or if you do, remember the root is not dependent upon you, but you upon the root.

you will say then, "the branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in."

lest God should not spare you, since he did not spare even the natural branches.

for if you were taken from the wild olive, which was natural to you, to be grafted into a good olive-stock of a different nature, with how much greater reason shall these who are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive-tree?