14 if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh and ^asave some of them.  ‡

15 For if their being cast away is the reconciling of the world, what will their acceptance be ^abut life from the dead?  ‡

17 And if ^asome of the branches were broken off, ^band you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them became a partaker of the root and¹ fatness of the olive tree,  ‡

18 ^ado not boast against the branches. But if you do boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you.  ‡