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Here Paul uses the example of the olive tree rather than the vineyard.
And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree [Gentile], wert grafted in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree [God]; Boast not against the branches [Jews]. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee. Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in. Well, because of unbelief [Messiah rejected] they were broken off, and thou standest by faith [in Yeshua Messiah]. Be not highminded, but fear: For if God spared not the natural branches [Jews], take heed lest he also spare not thee. Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell [through unbelief], severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off. And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be grafted back in: for God is able to graft them back in again. For if thou were cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these [Jews], which be the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree? Romans 11:17-24