Romans 11:14
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?
13 For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:
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?
16 For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be 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
For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife?
Read in context1 Timothy 4:16
Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.
Read in contextRomans 9:3
For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
Read in contextTitus 3:5
Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
Read in context1 Timothy 2:4
Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
Read in contextRomans 11:11
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.
Read in context1 Corinthians 1:21
For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
Read in context1 Corinthians 9:20–22
And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law;
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