American Standard Version
"if by any means I may provoke to jealousy them that are my flesh, and may save some of them. "
— Romans 11:14, American Standard Version
“If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.”
“if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and may save some of them.”
“if somehow I could provoke my people to jealousy and save some of them.”
“If, by any means, I may provoke to emulation them who are my flesh and may save some of them.”
“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.”
“If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.”
I say then, Did they stumble that they might fall? God forbid: but by their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.
Now if their fall is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?
But I speak to you that are Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle of Gentiles, I glorify my ministry;
if by any means I may provoke to jealousy them that are my flesh, and may save some of them.
For if the casting away of them is the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
And if the firstfruit is holy, so is the lump: and if the root is holy, so are the branches.
But if some of the branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive, wast grafted in among them, and didst become partaker with them of the root of the fatness of the olive tree;