Living_Oracles(i)
16 Moreover, if the first fruit be holy, the mass is also holy; and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
17 Now, if some of the branches were broken off, and you who are a wild olive, are engrafted among them, and are become a joint partaker of the root and fatness of the olive;
18 boast not against the branches: but if you boast, still, you bear not the root, but the root you.
19 You will say, however, The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.
20 True: by unbelief they were broken off, and you by faith, stand. Be not high-minded, but fear.
21 For, if God spared not the natural branches; perhaps, neither will he spare you.
22 Behold, then, the goodness and severity of God! Toward them who fell, severity: but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness: otherwise, you also shall be cut off.
23 And even they, if they continued not in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again.
24 For if you were cut off from the olive, by nature wild, and were contrary to nature, grafted into the good olive; how much rather shall those who are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive?