CLV(i)
16 Now if the firstfruit is holy, the kneading is also; and if the root is holy, the boughs are also."
17 Now if some of the boughs are broken out, yet you, being a wild olive, are grafted among them, and became a joint participant of the root and fatness of the olive,
18 be not vaunting, you are not bearing the root, but the root you."
19 You will be declaring, then, "Boughs are broken out that I may be grafted in."
20 Ideally! By unbelief are they broken out, yet you stand in faith. Be not haughty, but fear."
21 For if God spares not the natural boughs, neither will He be sparing you!"
22 Perceive, then, the kindness and severity of God! On those, indeed, who are falling, severity, yet on you, God's kindness, if you should be persisting in the kindness: else you also will be hewn out."
23 Now they also, if they should not be persisting in unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again."
24 For if you were hewn out of an olive wild by nature, and, beside nature, are grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much rather shall these, who are in accord with nature, be grafted into their own olive tree!"