Romans 11:16-18

International Children’s Bible

¹⁶ If the first piece of bread is offered to God, then the whole loaf is made holy. If the roots of a tree are holy, then the tree’s branches are holy too.

¹⁷ Some of the branches from an olive tree have been broken off, and the branch of a wild olive tree has been joined to that first tree. You non-Jews are the same as that wild branch, and you now share the strength and life of the first tree, the Jews. ¹⁸ So do not brag about those branches that were broken off. You have no reason to brag. Why? You do not give life to the root. The root gives life to you.