¹⁸ Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.

²⁰ Well: because of unbelief they were broken off. But thou standest by faith: be not highminded, but fear.

²⁴ For if thou wert cut out of the wild olive tree, which is natural to thee; and, contrary to nature, were grafted into the good olive tree; how much more shall they that are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?