^{15 Ref} For if the casting away of them `is' the reconciling of the world, what `shall' the receiving `of them be', but life from the dead?

^{16 Ref} And if the firstfruit is holy, so is the lump: and if the root is holy, so are the branches.

^{17 Ref} But if some of the branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive, wast grafted in among them, and didst become partaker with them of the root of the fatness of the olive tree;