World English Bible
"if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and may save some of them."
— Romans 11:14, World English Bible
“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 them that 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 ask then, did they stumble that they might fall? May it never be! But by their fall salvation has come to 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 fullness?
For I speak to you who are Gentiles. Since then as I am an apostle to Gentiles, I glorify my ministry;
if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and may save some of them.
For if the rejection of them is the reconciling of the world, what would their acceptance be, but life from the dead?
If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump. If the root is holy, so are the branches.
But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them, and became partaker with them of the root and of the richness of the olive tree;