Romans 11:14
I extol my office, that if possible I may excite to emulation my brethren according to the flesh, and may save some of them:
1770 John Worsley NT
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 indeed as I am the apostle of the Gentiles,
Cross References
Romans 11:11Say I then, Have they stumbled, that they should fall irrecoverably? God forbid! but this I say, that by their fall salvation is come to the Gentiles to excite them to emulation.
1 Corinthians 7:16But God hath called us to peace; for how knowest thou, O wife, but thou shalt save thy husband; or how knowest thou, O husband, but thou shalt save thy wife?
1 Timothy 2:4who is willing that all men should be saved, and therefore come to the knowledge of the truth.
2 Timothy 2:10Therefore I submit to every thing for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation which is by Christ Jesus, with eternal glory.
Philemon 1:12him therefore, as my own bowels, do thou receive.
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 →