15. For if the loss of them be the reconciliation of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
16. For if the firstfruit be holy, so is the lump also: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
17. And if some of the branches be broken, and thou, being a wild olive, art ingrafted in them, and art made partaker of the root, and of the fatness of the olive tree,
18. Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.
19. Thou wilt say then: The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.