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:
21. if God indeed has not spared the natural branches; lest it might be he spare not thee either.
22. Behold then the goodness and severity of God: upon them who have fallen, severity; upon thee goodness of God, if thou shalt abide in goodness, since otherwisethou also wilt be cut away.
23. And they too, if they abide not in unbelief, shall be grafted in; for God is able again to graft them in.