◄ Romans 11:14 ►
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Good News Translation
Perhaps I can make the people of my own race jealous, and so be able to save some of them.

New Revised Standard Version
in order to make my own people jealous, and thus save some of them.

Contemporary English Version
I hope in this way to make some of my own people jealous enough to be saved.

New American Bible
in order to make my race jealous and thus save some of them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
If, by any means, I may provoke to emulation them who are my flesh and may save some of them.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

If, by any means, I may provoke to emulation them who are my flesh and may save some of them.

by.

1 Corinthians 7:16 For how knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? Or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife?

1 Corinthians 9:20-22 And I became to the Jews a Jew, that I might gain the Jews: . . .

2 Timothy 2:10 Therefore I endure all things for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus, with heavenly glory.

provoke.

Romans 11:11 I say then: Have they so stumbled, that they should fall? God forbid! But by their offence salvation is come to the Gentiles, that they may be emulous of them.

my.

Romans 9:3 For I wished myself to be an anathema from Christ, for my brethren: who are my kinsmen according to the flesh:

Philemon 1:12 Whom I have sent back to thee. And do thou receive him as my own bowels.

might.

1 Corinthians 7:16 For how knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? Or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife?

1 Timothy 4:16 Take heed to thyself and to doctrine: be earnest in them. For in doing this thou shalt both save thyself and them that hear thee.

James 5:20 He must know that he who causeth a sinner to be converted from the error of his way shall save his soul from death and shall cover a multitude of sins.

Context
The Ingrafting of the Gentiles
…13For I say to you, Gentiles: As long indeed as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I will honour my ministry, 14If, by any means, I may provoke to emulation them who are my flesh and may save some of them. 15For if the loss of them be the reconciliation of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?…
Cross References
Genesis 29:14
He answered: Thou art my bone and my flesh. And after the days of one month were expired,

2 Samuel 19:12
You are my brethren, you are my bone, and my flesh, why are you the last to bring back the king?

Romans 9:3
For I wished myself to be an anathema from Christ, for my brethren: who are my kinsmen according to the flesh:

Romans 10:19
But I say: Hath not Israel known? First, Moses saith: I will provoke you to jealousy by that which is not a nation: by a foolish nation I will anger you.

Romans 11:11
I say then: Have they so stumbled, that they should fall? God forbid! But by their offence salvation is come to the Gentiles, that they may be emulous of them.

1 Corinthians 1:21
For, seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world, by wisdom, knew not God, it pleased God, by the foolishness of our preaching, to save them that believe.

1 Corinthians 7:16
For how knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? Or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife?

1 Corinthians 9:20
And I became to the Jews a Jew, that I might gain the Jews:

1 Corinthians 9:22
To the weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak. I became all things to all men, that I might save all.

1 Corinthians 10:33
As I also in all things please all men, not seeking that which is profitable to myself but to many: that they may be saved.

1 Timothy 1:15
A faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the chief.

1 Timothy 2:4
Who will have all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

2 Timothy 1:9
Who hath delivered us and called us by his holy calling, not according to our own works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the times of the world:

Titus 3:5
Not by the works of justice which we have done, but according to his mercy, he saved us, by the laver of regeneration and renovation of the Holy Ghost.

Hebrews 1:14
Are they not all ministering spirits, sent to minister for them who shall receive the inheritance of salvation?

Hebrews 2:3
How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation? Which, having begun to be declared by the Lord, was confirmed unto us by them that heard him.

James 5:20
He must know that he who causeth a sinner to be converted from the error of his way shall save his soul from death and shall cover a multitude of sins.

Romans 11:13
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