Romans 11:14
That I might provoke to envy my own people, and might save some of them.
Revised King James 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
Cross References
Romans 11:11I say then, Have they stumbled to fall beyond recovery? By no means: but rather through their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.
1 Corinthians 7:16For how do you know, O wife, whether you shall save your husband? or how do you know, O man, whether you shall save your wife?
1 Timothy 2:4Who desires all men to be saved, and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
2 Timothy 2:10Therefore, I endure all things for the sake of the chosen, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus, with its eternal glory.
Philemon 1:12I am sending him back to you, sending 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 →