15. For if their rejection means the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean except life from the dead?
16. Now if the first fruits are holy, so also is the whole batch of dough, and if the root is holy, so also are the branches.
17. Now if some of the branches were broken off, and you, although you were a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them and became a sharer of the root of the olive tree’s richness,
18. do not boast against the branches. But if you boast against them, you do not support the root, but the root supports you.
19. Then you will say, “Branches were broken off in order that I could be grafted in.”