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,^[a] if they do not continue in unbelief,^[b] will be grafted in, for God has the power to graft them in again.^{(B) 24} For if you have been cut from what is by nature a wild olive tree and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these natural branches be grafted back into their own olive tree.