¹⁹ “Well,” you may be saying, “those branches were broken off to make room for me, so I must be pretty good.”

²⁰ Watch out! Remember that those branches, the Jews, were broken off because they didn’t believe God, and you are there only because you do. Do not be proud; be humble and grateful—and careful. ²¹ For if God did not spare the branches he put there in the first place, he won’t spare you either.