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Summary
I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.
Have they stumbled
But rather
To provoke them to jealousy
General references
Bible References
Have they stumbled
Ezekiel 18:23
For I desire not the death of a sinner, saith the Lord Jehovah, but rather that he should turn from his way, and live.
Ezekiel 33:11
Tell them, 'As truly as I live, sayeth the LORD God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but much rather that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn you, turn you from your ungodly ways, O ye of the house of Israel. Oh, wherefore will ye die?'
But rather
Romans 11:12
Wherefore, if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the gentiles, how much more should it be so if they all believed?
Acts 13:42
When they were come out of the Synagogue of the Jews, the gentiles besought them that they would preach the word of god to them between the Sabbath days.
Acts 18:6
And when they said contrary, and blasphemed, he shook his raiment and said unto them, "Your blood upon your own heads. And from henceforth I go blameless unto the gentiles."
Acts 22:18
And saw him saying unto me, 'Make haste, and get thee quickly out of Jerusalem: for they will not receive thy witness that thou bearest of me.'
Acts 28:24
And some believed the things which were spoken, and some believed not.
To provoke them to jealousy
Romans 11:14
that I might provoke them which are my flesh: and might save some of them.
General references
Zephaniah 3:10
Such as I have subdued, and my children also whom I have scattered abroad, shall bring me presents beyond the waters of Ethiopia.