Romans 11:18-24

¹⁸Yet do not exult over the other branches. But, if you do exult over them, remember that you do not support the root, but that the root supports you.

¹⁹But branches, you will say, were broken off, so that I might be grafted in.

²⁰True; it was because of their want of faith that they were broken off, and it is because of your faith that you are standing. Do not think too highly of yourself, but beware.

²¹For, if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.

²²See, then, both the goodness and the severity of God — his severity towards those who fell, and his goodness towards you, provided that you continue to confide in that goodness; otherwise you, also, will be cut off.

²³And they, too, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in; for God has it in his power to graft them in again.

²⁴If you were cut off from your natural stock — a wild olive — and were grafted, contrary to the course of nature, on a good olive, much more will they — the natural branches — be grafted back into their parent tree.