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Romans 11:14
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.
Romans 11:14 · Bible in Basic English
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Romans 11:14 in other translations
If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.
in the hope that I may provoke my own people to jealousy and save some of them.
if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and may save some of them.
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In context
11 So I say, Were their steps made hard in order that they might have a fall? In no way: but by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, so that they might be moved to envy.
12 Now, if their fall is the wealth of the world, and their loss the wealth of the Gentiles, how much greater will be the glory when they are made full?
13 But I say to you, Gentiles, in so far as I am the Apostle of the Gentiles, I make much of my position:
14 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.
15 For, if by their putting away, the rest of men have been made friends with God, what will their coming back again be, but life from the dead?
16 And if the first-fruit is holy, so is the mass: and if the root is holy, so are the branches.
17 But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, an olive-tree of the fields, were put in among them, and were given a part with them in the root by which the olive-tree is made fertile,
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