ECB(i)
15 For if their casting away be the reconciling of the cosmos, what a reception if not life from the dead?
16 For if the firstlings be holy, the lump also: and if the root be holy, the branches also.
17 And if some of the branches are exscinded and you, being a wild olive, are ingrafted and with them become co-partaker of the root and fatness of the olives;
18 exult not against the branches. But if you exult, you bear not the root, but the root you.
19 So you say, The branches were exscinded, to ingraft me.
20 Well! Because of trustlessness, they were exscinded and by trust, you stand. Be not highminded, but awe:
21 for if Elohim spared not the natural branches, heed lest somehow he spare not you.
22 So perceive the kindness and severity of Elohim: on them who fell, indeed severity; and toward you, kindness - whenever you abide in his kindness: otherwise you also become exscinded;
23 and they also become ingrafted, unless they ever abide in trustlessness: for Elohim is able to ingraft them again.