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Romans 11:14 KJV
Romans · chapter 11 · verse 14
If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.Romans 11:14 · King James Version
Romans 11:14 in context
12Now 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?
13For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:
14If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.
15For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
16For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- emulationparazēloōto provoke to, to provoke to jealously or rivalry, to provoke to angerG3863 →
- meansei pōsif indeed, since, if after allG1513 →
- meanspōsby any means, at all, perhapsG4458 →
- fleshsarxflesh of both man and beasts, the body, the body of a man, used of natural or physical…G4561 →
- savesōzōto save, keep safe and sound, to rescue from danger or destruction, one , to save a…G4982 →
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The apostle proposes here a plausible objection, which might be urged against the divine conduct in casting off the Jewish nation (Rom 11:1): "Hath God cast away his people? Is the rejection total and final? Are they all abandoned to wrath and ruin, and that eternal? Is the extent of the sentence so large as to be…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-32