¹⁴ if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and may save some of them.

¹⁶ For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?

²⁰ let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death, and will cover a multitude of sins.

¹⁶ Pay attention to yourself, and to your teaching. Continue in these things, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.

³ For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers' sake, my relatives according to the flesh,

¹² I am sending him back. Therefore receive him, that is, my own heart,

⁵ not by works of righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,

¹⁰ Therefore I endure all things for the chosen ones' sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

⁴ who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.

²⁰ To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law;

²¹ to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law.

²² To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.

²¹ For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn't know God, it was God's good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe.

¹¹ 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.