Say I then, Have they stumbled, that they should fall irrecoverably? God forbid! but this I say, that by their fall salvation is come to the Gentiles to excite them to emulation.

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

For I am afraid least when I come, I should not find you such as I could wish, and I should be found to you such as ye would not: least there should be contentions, emulations, animosities, strifes, thwartings, whisperings, swellings, tumults: and least,

lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, enmities, strifes, emulations, animosities, contentions, divisions,