²⁴ For if you were cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, who are natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?

¹⁷ And if ^(A)some of the branches were broken off, ^(B)and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them became a partaker of the root and ^[a]fatness of the olive tree, ^18 (C)do not boast against the branches. But if you do boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you.

³⁰ For as you ^(A)were once disobedient to God, yet have now obtained mercy through their disobedience,