Romans 11:18-24

¹⁸then you shouldn't look down on the other branches. If you're tempted to boast, remember it's not you who are supporting the roots, but the roots that are supporting you.

¹⁹You could make the claim, “Branches were broken off so I could be grafted in.”

²⁰All well and good—but they were broken off because of their failure to trust in God, and you stay there because you trust in God. So don't think highly of yourselves, but be respectful,

²¹because if God didn't spare the original branches, he won't spare you either.

²²You should recognize both God's kindness and toughness—he was tough on the fallen, but God is kind to you so long as you trust in his kindness—otherwise you'll be removed too.

²³If they no longer refuse to trust in God, they can be grafted in as well, for God is able to graft them back in again.

²⁴If you could be cut from a wild olive tree, and then be grafted artificially onto a cultivated olive tree, how much more easily they could be grafted back naturally to their own tree.