[13] I speak Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify office: [14] I may provoke to emulation flesh, and might save some of them. [15] For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving life from the dead? [16] For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also if the root be holy, so are the branches.