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Romans 11:14 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them. "
Romans 11:14
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
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?
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.
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?
For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
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Romans 11:1
"I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin."
Romans 11:2
"God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying,"
Romans 11:3
"Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life."
Romans 11:4
"But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal."
Romans 11:5
"Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace."
Romans 11:6
"And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work."
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