Romans 11:13
11 I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.
12 Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?
For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:
14 If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.
15 For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch as I am the apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry
- KJV
- For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:
- WEB
- For I speak to you who are Gentiles. Since then as I am an apostle to Gentiles, I glorify my ministry,
- ASV
- But I speak to you that are Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle of Gentiles, I glorify my ministry;
- DARBY
- For I speak to you, the nations, inasmuch as *I* am apostle of nations, I glorify my ministry;
- BLB
- Now I speak to you⁺, the Gentiles. Therefore indeed inasmuch I am an apostle of the Gentiles, I glorify my ministry,
- ÅB
- For jeg snakker til dere hedninger. Så sant som jeg er hedningenes apostel, setter jeg min tjeneste høyt,
- OTB
- Jeg taler til dere hedninger. Så langt som jeg er apostel for hedningene, forherliger jeg min tjeneste
- B1930
- For til eder taler jeg, I hedninger! Så sant som jeg er hedningenes apostel, priser jeg mitt embede,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Acts 9:15
But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel:
Read in context2 Timothy 1:11–12
Where unto I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.
Read in contextRomans 15:16–19
That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost.
Read in contextGalatians 1:16
To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:
Read in context1 Timothy 2:7
Where unto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, and lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity.
Read in contextEphesians 3:8
Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;
Read in contextActs 22:21
And he said unto me, Depart: for I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles.
Read in contextGalatians 2:2
And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to them which were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain.
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