Romans 11:14
if by any means I may provoke to jealousy [them that are] my flesh, and may save some of them.
American Standard 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 that they might fall? God forbid: but by their fall salvation [is come] unto the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.
1 Corinthians 7:16For how knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? Or how knowest thou, O husband, whether thou shalt save thy wife?
1 Timothy 2:4who would have all men to be saved, and come to the knowledge of the truth.
2 Timothy 2:10Therefore I endure all things for the elect`s sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
Philemon 1:12whom I have sent back to thee in his own person, that is, my very heart:
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 →