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.
19. Thou wilt say then, The branches have been broken out in order that I might be grafted in.
20. Right: they have been broken out through unbelief, and thou standest through faith. Be not high-minded, but fear: