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.
23. And those also, if they may not remain in unbelief, shall be graffed in, for God is able again to graff them in;