15. for if the casting away of them [is] a reconciliation of the world, what the reception- -if not life out of the dead?
16. and if the first-fruit [is] holy, the lump also; and if the root [is] holy, the branches also.
17. And if certain of the branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wast graffed in among them, and a fellow-partaker of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree didst become--
18. do not boast against the branches; and if thou dost boast, thou dost not bear the root, but the root thee!
19. Thou wilt say, then, `The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in;' right!
20. by unbelief they were broken off, and thou hast stood by faith; be not high-minded, but be fearing;
21. for if God the natural branches did not spare--lest perhaps He also shall not spare thee.
22. Lo, then, goodness and severity of God--upon those indeed who fell, severity; and upon thee, goodness, if thou mayest remain in the goodness, otherwise, thou also shalt be cut off.