Romans 11:14

trying whether I can succeed in rousing my own countrymen to jealousy and thus save some of them.

Weymouth NT (1912)

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

13But to you Gentiles I say that, since I am an Apostle specially sent to the Gentiles, I take pride in my ministry,

15For if their having been cast aside has carried with it the reconciliation of the world, what will their being accepted again be but Life out of death?

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Cross References

Romans 11:11I ask, however, "Have they stumbled so as to be finally ruined?" No, indeed; but by their lapse salvation has come to the Gentiles in order to arouse the jealousy of the descendants of Israel;

1 Corinthians 7:16For what assurance have you, O woman, as to whether you will save your husband? Or what assurance have you, O man, as to whether you will save your wife?

1 Timothy 2:4who is willing for all mankind to be saved and come to a full knowledge of the truth.

2 Timothy 2:10For this reason I endure all things for the sake of God's own people; so that they also may obtain salvation--even the salvation which is in Christ Jesus--and with it eternal glory.

Philemon 1:12I am sending him back to you, though in so doing I send part of myself.

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 →

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