Parallel Verses

Daniel Mace New Testament

if I could by any means excite the emulation of my dear countrymen, in order to save some.

New American Standard Bible

if somehow I might move to jealousy my fellow countrymen and save some of them.

King James Version

If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.

Holman Bible

if I can somehow make my own people jealous and save some of them.

International Standard Version

in the hope that I can make my people jealous and save some of them.

A Conservative Version

if somehow I may provoke my flesh to jealousy and may save some of them.

American Standard Version

if by any means I may provoke to jealousy them that are my flesh, and may save some of them.

Amplified

in the hope of somehow making my fellow countrymen jealous [by stirring them up so that they will seek the truth] and perhaps save some of them.

An Understandable Version

in hope that somehow I might stir up jealousy among my fellow-Jews, and thereby save some of them.

Anderson New Testament

if, by any means, I may excite to jealousy those who are my flesh, and save some of them.

Bible in Basic English

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.

Common New Testament

in the hope that I may somehow arouse to jealousy the kinsmen of my flesh and save some of them.

Darby Translation

if by any means I shall provoke to jealousy them which are my flesh, and shall save some from among them.

Godbey New Testament

if perchance I may provoke my flesh, and save some of them.

Goodspeed New Testament

in the hope of making my countrymen jealous, and thus saving some of them.

John Wesley New Testament

I magnify my office: If by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and save some of them.

Julia Smith Translation

If in some way I might make jealous my flesh, and I might save some of them.)

King James 2000

If by any means I may provoke to envy them who are my flesh, and might save some of them.

Lexham Expanded Bible

if somehow I may provoke my people to jealousy and save some of them.

Modern King James verseion

if by any means I may provoke those who are my flesh to jealousy, and might save some of them.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

that I might provoke them which are my flesh: and might save some of them.

Moffatt New Testament

in the hope of being able to make my fellow-Jews jealous and of managing thus to save some of them.

Montgomery New Testament

if by any means I might "provoke to jealousy" my kinsmen, and save some among them.

NET Bible

if somehow I could provoke my people to jealousy and save some of them.

New Heart English Bible

if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and may save some of them.

Noyes New Testament

that I may, if possible, excite to emulation those who are my flesh, and may save some of them.

Sawyer New Testament

if perhaps I may excite my flesh [race] to emulation and save some of them.

The Emphasized Bible

If by any means I may provoke to jealousy my own flesh, and save some from among them; -

Thomas Haweis New Testament

if by any means I might provoke to jealousy my flesh, and save some of them.

Twentieth Century New Testament

Being myself an Apostle to the Gentiles, I exalt my office, in the hope that I may stir my countrymen to rivalry, and so save some of them.

Webster

If by any means I may incite to emulation them who are my flesh, and may save some of them.

Weymouth New Testament

trying whether I can succeed in rousing my own countrymen to jealousy and thus save some of them.

Williams New Testament

if I can make my fellow-countrymen jealous, and so save some of them.

World English Bible

if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and may save some of them.

Worrell New Testament

if by any means I may excite to rivalry my flesh, and save some of them.

Worsley New Testament

I extol my office, that if possible I may excite to emulation my brethren according to the flesh, and may save some of them:

Youngs Literal Translation

if by any means I shall arouse to jealousy mine own flesh, and shall save some of them,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
If
εἰ 
Ei 
if, whether, that, not tr,
Usage: 218

by any means
πῶς 
Pos 
Usage: 65

παραζηλόω 
Parazeloo 
Usage: 4

μοῦ 
Mou 
my, me, mine, I, mine own
Usage: 313

σάρξ 
Sarx 
Usage: 130

and

and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0

σώζω 
Sozo 
Usage: 79

τίς 
Tis 
Usage: 373

of
ἐκ ἐξ 
Ek 
of, from, out of, by, on, with,
Usage: 709

References

American

Fausets

Morish

Watsons

Context Readings

Cursing Of The Fig Tree

13 this concerns you Gentiles. for as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I should do honour to my character, 14 if I could by any means excite the emulation of my dear countrymen, in order to save some. 15 for, if by rejecting them, the world may be reconciled; what shall their restoration be, but a general resurrection?

Cross References

1 Corinthians 7:16

O wife, but you may save your husband? or how do you know, O man, but you may save your wife?

Romans 9:3

for I could wish to be as one anathematiz'd from the christian church for my brethren, who are of the same race as my self,

1 Timothy 4:16

take care how you behave, and what you teach. persevere in these duties: for by the practice of them, you will save both yourself, and those who hear you.

James 5:20

that the retrieving of a sinner from his erroneous habits, is saving a soul from ruin, and cancels a multitude of sins.

Romans 11:11

You will say then, "were they suffer'd to stumble meerly for their ruin?" no: but that thro' their fall, salvation might be offer'd to the Gentiles, in order to provoke their emulation.

1 Corinthians 1:21

for whereas the world, with all their learning, did not distinguish the characters of his divine wisdom, in his works, it pleased God to save those who believe, by preaching, which they counted folly.

1 Corinthians 9:20-22

to the Jews, I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law;

1 Timothy 2:4

who wills that all men be saved, by embracing the truth.

2 Timothy 2:10

I therefore bear with every thing for the sake of the converts, that they may obtain that salvation, which Jesus Christ has procur'd us, even eternal glory.

Titus 3:5

he saved us not in consideration of any virtuous actions which we had done, but out of his meer mercy, by the baptism of regeneration, he form'd us anew, by the plentiful effusion of the holy spirit,

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