Romans 11:14
if by any means I might "provoke to jealousy" my kinsmen, and save some among them.
Montgomery New Testament
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 to you who are Gentiles I say that since I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I glorify my ministry,
Cross References
Romans 11:11I ask then, "Have they stumbled so as to fall?" No indeed; but by their lapse salvation has come unto Gentiles, "to provoke Israel to jealousy."
1 Corinthians 7:16For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?
1 Timothy 2:4whose will it is that all men should be saved, and come into full knowledge of the truth.
2 Timothy 2:10But God’s message is no prisoner. That is why I endure everything for the sake of the chosen, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
Philemon 1:12I am sending him back to you, he himself, 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 →