15. For if their casting away is the restoration to favour of the world, what is their acceptance but life from the dead?
16. Now if the first-fruit is set-apart, the lump is also. And if the root is set-apart, so are the branches.
17. And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, have been grafted in among them, and came to share the root and fatness of the olive tree,
18. do not boast against the branches. And if you boast, remember: you do not bear the root, but the root bears you!
19. You shall say then, “The branches were broken off that I might be grafted in.”