Romans 11:14
if somehow I may provoke my flesh to jealousy and may save some of them.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.
In Context
Cross References
Romans 11:11I say then, did they stumble so that they would fall? May it not happen! But in their transgression, salvation is to the Gentiles, in order to provoke them to jealousy.
1 Corinthians 7:16For how do thou know, O wife, whether thou will save thy husband? Or how will thou know, O husband, whether thou will save thy wife?
1 Timothy 2:4who wants all men to be saved and to come to knowledge of truth.
2 Timothy 2:10Because of this I endure all things because of the chosen, so that they also may experience salvation in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory.
Philemon 1:12And thou should welcome him, that is, my bowels.
Matthew Henry on Romans 11:2-33
The State of the Jews; The State of the Gentiles; The Gentiles Warned; The Future Conversion of the Jews. ( a. d. 58.) 1 I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. 2 God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying, 3 Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my… Read the whole commentary →