12and if the fall of them is the riches of a world, and the diminution of them the riches of nations, how much more the fulness of them?
13For to you I speak — to the nations — inasmuch as I am indeed an apostle of nations, my ministration I do glorify;
14if by any means I shall arouse to jealousy mine own flesh, and shall save some of them,
15for if the casting away of them is a reconciliation of the world, what the reception — if not life out of the dead?
16and if the first-fruit is holy, the lump also; and if the root is holy, the branches also.
17And if certain of the branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wast graffed in among them, and a fellow-partaker of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree didst become —
18do not boast against the branches; and if thou dost boast, thou dost not bear the root, but the root thee!
19Thou wilt say, then, 'The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in;' right!
20by unbelief they were broken off, and thou hast stood by faith; be not high-minded, but be fearing;