Romans 11:14
12 But if their trespass means riches for the world, and their failure means riches for the Gentiles, how much greater riches will their fullness bring!
13 I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch as I am the apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry
in the hope that I may provoke my own people to jealousy and save some of them.
15 For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?
16 If the first part of the dough is holy, so is the whole batch; if the root is holy, so are the branches.
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
- in the hope that I may provoke my own people to jealousy and save some of them.
- KJV
- If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.
- WEB
- if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and may save some of them.
- ASV
- if by any means I may provoke to jealousy [them that are] my flesh, and may save some of them.
- DARBY
- if by any means I shall provoke to jealousy [them which are] my flesh, and shall save some from among them.
- BLB
- if somehow I will provoke my [own] flesh to jealousy and will save some of them.
- ÅB
- i håp om å gjøre mine slektsfeller etter kjøttet sjalu, så noen av dem kan bli frelst.
- OTB
- om jeg på en eller annen måte kan vekke mitt eget folk til misunnelse og frelse noen av dem.
- B1930
- om jeg bare kunde vekke mine kjødelige frender til nidkjærhet og få frelst nogen av dem.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 Corinthians 7:16
How do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?
Read in context1 Timothy 4:16
Pay close attention to your life and to your teaching. Persevere in these things, for by so doing you will save both yourself and those who hear you.
Read in contextRomans 9:3
For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my own flesh and blood,
Read in contextTitus 3:5
He saved us, not by the righteous deeds we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of new birth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.
Read in context1 Timothy 2:4
who wants everyone to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Read in contextRomans 11:11
I ask then, did they stumble so as to fall beyond recovery? Certainly not! However, because of their trespass, salvation has come to the Gentiles to make Israel jealous.
Read in context1 Corinthians 1:21
For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know Him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe.
Read in context1 Corinthians 9:20–22
To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law (though I myself am not under the law), to win those under the law.
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