For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these natural branches be grafted back into their own olive tree?p>

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

And will not the physically uncircumcised man<n id="1" /> who keeps the law judge you who, despite<n id="2" /> the written code<n id="3" /> and circumcision, transgress the law?

<p class="bodytext">For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged the natural sexual relations for unnatural ones,<n id="1" />

For whenever the Gentiles,<n id="1" /> who do not have the law, do by nature<n id="2" /> the things required by the law,<n id="3" /> these who do not have the law are a law to themselves.