Romans 11:14
If by any means I may provoke to awaken jealousy in them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.
Updated King James 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
13For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:
Cross References
Romans 11:11I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation has come unto the Gentiles, in order to provoke them to jealousy.
1 Corinthians 7:16For what know you, O wife, whether you shall save your husband? or how know you, O man, whether you shall save your wife?
1 Timothy 2:4Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
2 Timothy 2:10Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
Philemon 1:12Whom I have sent again: you therefore receive him, that is, mine own bowels:
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 →