'Branches' in the Bible

and if the first-fruit is holy, the lump also; and if the root is holy, the branches also.

And if certain of the branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wast graffed in among them, and a fellow-partaker of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree didst become --

do not boast against the branches; and if thou dost boast, thou dost not bear the root, but the root thee!

Thou wilt say, then, 'The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in;' right!

for if God the natural branches did not spare -- lest perhaps He also shall not spare thee.