²⁴ After all, if you were cut out of an olive tree that is wild by nature, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree,^(A) how much more readily will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree!

¹⁷ If some of the branches have been broken off,^(A) and you, though a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others^(B) and now share in the nourishing sap from the olive root, ¹⁸ do not consider yourself to be superior to those other branches. If you do, consider this: You do not support the root, but the root supports you.^(C)

³⁰ Just as you who were at one time disobedient^(A) to God have now received mercy as a result of their disobedience,