Romans 11:14
If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.
Romans 11:14 in other translations
| BSB | in the hope that I may provoke my own people to jealousy and save some of them. |
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| 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. |
| YLT | if by any means I shall arouse to jealousy mine own flesh, and shall 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. |
| BBE | If in any way those who are of my flesh may be moved to envy, so that some of them may get salvation by me. |
| Webster | If by any means I may incite to emulation them who are my flesh, and may save some of them. |
What does Romans 11:14 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Romans 11:13-14
13-14. I speak--"am speaking" to you Gentiles--another proof that this Epistle was addressed to Gentile believers. (See on Ro 1:13). I magnify--"glorify" mine office--The clause beginning with "inasmuch" should be read as a parenthesis.
Barnes' Notes
I may provoke to emulation. I may awaken up to zeal, or to an earnest desire to obtain the like blessings. This was in accordance with the prediction of Moses, that the calling in of the Gentiles would excite their attention, and provoke them to deep feeling. Rom 10:19. The apostle expected to do this by calling their attention to the ancient prophecies; by alarming their fears about their own danger; and by showing them the great privileges which Gentiles might enjoy under the gospel; thus appealing to them by every principle of benevolence, by all their regard for God and man, to excite them to seek the same blessings.
My flesh. My countrymen. My kinsmen. Those belonging to the same family or nation, Rom 9:3, Gen 29:14, Jud 9:2, 2Sam 5:1, Isa 58:7.
And save some of them. This desire the apostle often expressed. (See Rom 9:2,3, 10:1,2.) We may see here,
(1.) that it is the earnest wish of the ministry to save the souls of men.
(2.) That they should urge every argument and appeal with reference to this.
(3.) That even the most awful and humbling truths may have this tendency. No truth could be more likely to irritate and offend than that the Jews would be cast off; and yet the apostle used this so faithfully, and yet so tenderly, that he expected and desired it might be the means of saving the souls of his countrymen. Truth often irritates, enrages, and thus excites the attention. Thought or inquiry, however it may be excited, may result in conversion. And thus, even restlessness, and vexation, and anger, may be the means of leading a sinner to Jesus Christ. It should be no part of a minister's object, however, to produce anger. It is a bad emotion; in itself it is evil; and if men can be won to embrace the Saviour without anger, it is better. No wise man would excite a storm and tempest that might require infinite power to subdue, when the same object could be gained with comparative peace, and under the mild influence of love.
(4.) It is right to use all the means in our power, not absolutely wicked, to save men. Paul was full of devices; and much of the success of the ministry will depend on a wise use of plans that may, by the Divine blessing, arrest and save the souls of men.
(o) "save some of them" 1Cor 7:16
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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Romans 11:11-21
The gospel is the greatest riches of every place where it is. As therefore the righteous rejection of the unbelieving Jews, was the occasion of so large a multitude of the Gentiles being reconciled to God, and at peace with him; the future receiving of the Jews into the church would be such a change, as would resemble a general resurrection of the dead in sin to a life of righteousness. Abraham was as the root of…
Romans 11:14 in the original Greek
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Cross references for Romans 11:14
- 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?
- 1 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.
- Romans 9:3
For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
- Titus 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;
- 1 Timothy 2:4
Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
- Romans 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.
- 1 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.
- 1 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; To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law. To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.
- 2 Timothy 2:10
Therefore I endure all things for the elect’s sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
- James 5:20
Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.
- Philemon 1:12
Whom I have sent again: thou therefore receive him, that is, mine own bowels:
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Context
- Romans 11:13
For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:
- Romans 11:14
If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.
- Romans 11:15
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?
Romans 11:14 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Por si en alguna manera provocase á celos á mi carne, é hiciese salvos á algunos de ellos. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | si en quelque façon je puis exciter à la jalousie ma chair et sauver quelques-uns d’entre eux. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | ob ich auf irgend eine Weise sie, die mein Fleisch sind, zur Eifersucht reizen und etliche aus ihnen erretten möge. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | si quomodo ad æmulandum provocem carnem meam, et salvos faciam aliquos ex illis. |