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Romans 11:14

that somehow I might make my people jealous and save some of them.

Free Bible 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

13Now let me speak to you foreigners. Insofar as I'm a missionary to foreigners, I promote what I'm doing

15If the result of God's rejection of them is that the world becomes God's friends, the result of God's acceptance of them would be like the dead coming back to life!

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Cross References

Romans 11:11So am I saying that they stumbled and consequently failed completely? Not at all! But as a result of their mistakes, salvation came to other nations, to “make them jealous.”

1 Corinthians 7:16Wives, who knows? You may save your husband! Husbands, who knows? You may save your wife!

1 Timothy 2:4He wants everyone to be saved, and come to understand what truth really is.

2 Timothy 2:10Despite all this I'm willing to keep on going for the sake of God's people so that they may gain the salvation of Christ Jesus that is eternal glory.

Philemon 1:12I send him to you with my fondest wishes.

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 →

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