18do not boast against the branches; and if thou dost boast, thou dost not bear the root, but the root thee!
19Thou wilt say, then, `The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in;` right!
20by unbelief they were broken off, and thou hast stood by faith; be not high-minded, but be fearing;
21for if God the natural branches did not spare -- lest perhaps He also shall not spare thee.
22Lo, then, goodness and severity of God -- upon those indeed who fell, severity; and upon thee, goodness, if thou mayest remain in the goodness, otherwise, thou also shalt be cut off.
23And those also, if they may not remain in unbelief, shall be graffed in, for God is able again to graff them in;
24for 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?
