Romans 11:16
For if the firstfruit holy, the lump also : and if the root holy, so the branches.
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14 If by any means I may provoke to emulation my flesh, and might save some of them.
15 For if the casting away of them the reconciling of the world, what the receiving , but life from the dead?
16 For if the firstfruit holy, the lump also : and if the root holy, so the branches.
17 And if some of the branches be broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
18 Boast not against the branches. But if you boast, you bearest not the root, but the root you.