15. For if their rejection means the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?
16. If the first portion of the dough is holy, the batch is also holy. And if the root is holy, so are the branches.
17. But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among them and became a partaker with them of the root and richness of the olive tree,
18. do not boast against the branches. If you boast, remember you do not sustain the root, but the root sustains you.
19. You will say then, “The branches were broken off, so that I might be grafted in.”