²¹ For if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.^{[a] 22} Note then the kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen but God’s kindness toward you, if you continue in his kindness; otherwise you also will be cut off.^{(A) 23} And even those of Israel,^[b] if they do not continue in unbelief,^[c] will be grafted in, for God has the power to graft them in again.^(B)