Romans 11:14
if by any means I shall provoke to jealousy [them which are] my flesh, and shall save some from among them.
Darby Translation
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
13For I speak to you, the nations, inasmuch as *I* am apostle of nations, I glorify my ministry;
Cross References
Romans 11:11I say then, Have they stumbled in order that they might fall? Far be the thought: but by their fall [there is] salvation to the nations to provoke them to jealousy.
1 Corinthians 7:16For what knowest thou, O wife, if thou shalt save thy husband? or what knowest thou, O husband, if thou shalt save thy wife?
1 Timothy 2:4who desires that all men should be saved and come to [the] knowledge of [the] truth.
2 Timothy 2:10For this cause I endure all things for the sake of the elect, that *they* also may obtain the salvation which [is] in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
Philemon 1:12whom I have sent back to thee: [but do *thou* receive] 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 →