²⁴ for if thou, out of the olive tree, wild by nature, wast cut out, and, contrary to nature, wast graffed into a good olive tree, how much rather shall they, who `are' according to nature, be graffed into their own olive tree?

¹⁷ And if certain of the branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wast graffed in among them, and a fellow-partaker of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree didst become --

¹⁸ do not boast against the branches; and if thou dost boast, thou dost not bear the root, but the root thee!

³⁰ for as ye also once did not believe in God, and now did find kindness by the unbelief of these: