Then you will say, “The branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in.”

For if God did not spare the natural branches, perhaps he will not spare you.

If the first portion of the dough offered is holy, then the whole batch is holy, and if the root is holy, so too are the branches.

do not boast over the branches. But if you boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you.

Now if some of the branches were broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among them and participated in the richness of the olive root,