16 For if the first fruit [is] holy, the lump [is] also [holy]: and if the root [is] holy, so [are] the branches.
17 And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive-tree, art ingrafted among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive-tree;
18 Boast not against the branches. But if thou boastest, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.
19 Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be ingrafted.
20 Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not high-minded, but fear:
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