For if the firstfruit is holy, the lump is also holy; and if the root is holy, also the branches.

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

do not boast against the branches. But if you boast, it is not you that bears the root, but the root bears you.

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

For if God did not spare the natural branches, fear lest He also may not spare you either!