13. For I speak to you, the nations, inasmuch as I am apostle of nations, I glorify my ministry;
14. if by any means I shall provoke to jealousy them which are my flesh, and shall save some from among them.
15. For if their casting away be the world's reconciliation, what their reception but life from among the dead?
16. Now if the first-fruit be holy, the lump also; and if the root be holy, the branches also.
17. Now if some of the branches have been broken out, and thou, being a wild olive tree, hast been grafted in amongst them, and hast become a fellow-partaker of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree,
18. boast not against the branches; but if thou boast, it is not thou bearest the root, but the root thee.