For if one piece be holy, the whole heap is holy. And if the root be holy, the branches are holy also.

Though some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, art graft in among them, and made partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree;

boast not thyself against the branches. For if thou boast thyself, remember that thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.

Thou wilt say then, "The branches are broken off, that I might be graft in."

seeing that God spared not the natural branches, lest haply he also spare not thee.

For if thou wast cut out of a natural wild olive tree, and wast grafted contrary to nature in a true olive tree: how much more shall the natural branches be graffed in their own olive tree again?