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

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

^{17 Ref} And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;