Romans 11:14
if I may provoke my fleshly kindred, and save some of them.
The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge
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
13To you, Gentiles, I speak, I, who am apostle of the Gentiles, in my ministry I glory,
Cross References
Romans 11:11But I say, Have they stumbled so as to fall? Not so: but, by their stumbling was salvation to the Gentiles, unto their zeal.
1 Corinthians 7:16For how knowest thou, wife, whether thou mayest save thy husband? Or knowest thou, man, if thy wife thou mayest save?
1 Timothy 2:4who willeth that all men should be saved, and turn to the knowledge of the truth.
2 Timothy 2:10Therefore I endure every thing on account of the elect, that they also may find salvation in Jeshu Meshiha, with the glory that is eternal.
Philemon 1:12and I have sent him to thee. But thou, as (one) who is my offspring, so receive him.
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 →