Romans 11:14
if somehow I provoke my own people to jealousy and save some of them.
Text-Critical English NT
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 ask then, did the Israelites stumble so as to fall? Certainly not! Rather, by their trespass salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke Israel to jealousy.
1 Corinthians 7:16For how do yoʋ know, O wife, whether yoʋ will save yoʋr husband? Or how do yoʋ know, O husband, whether yoʋ will save yoʋr wife?
1 Timothy 2:4who wants all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
2 Timothy 2:10Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the chosen, so that they too may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory.
Philemon 1:12and I ask yoʋ to receive him, that is, my very own 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 →