²² Note then the kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen, but God's kindness to you, ^(A)provided you continue in his kindness. Otherwise ^(B)you too will be cut off. ²³ And ^(C)even they, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God has the power to graft them in again. ²⁴ For if you were cut from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, the natural branches, be grafted back into their own olive tree.