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I. THE DUTY.

1. Boast not, etc.

2. Despise not.

3. Insult not.

4. But pity and pray for him.

II. THE REASONS. Remember —

1. What you were.

(1)  Wild.

(2)  Uncultivated.

(3)  Unfruitful.

2. Your calling.

(1)  Grafted in.

(2)  Through grace at his expense.

3. Your privileges; enjoying the blessings of the covenant.

4. Your dependence.

(J. Lyth, D.D.)

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KJV: And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;

WEB: But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them, and became partaker with them of the root and of the richness of the olive tree;