Romans 9:3

For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Messiah for my brothers’ sake, my relatives according to the flesh

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For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:

In Context

2that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.

4who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;

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Cross References

Exodus 32:32Yet now, if you will, forgive their sin—and if not, please blot me out of your book which you have written.”

Joshua 6:17The city shall be devoted, even it and all that is in it, to the LORD. Only Rahab the prostitute shall live, she and all who are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.

1 Samuel 14:44Saul said, “God do so and more also; for you shall surely die, Jonathan.”

Acts 7:23But when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers, the children of Israel.

Romans 11:1I ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

1 Corinthians 12:3Therefore I make known to you that no man speaking by God’s Spirit says, “Yeshua is accursed.” No one can say, “Yeshua is Lord,” but by the Holy Spirit.

Matthew Henry on Romans 9:2-6

Paul's Anxiety for the Jews. ( a. d. 58.) 1 I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, 2 That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. 3 For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh: 4 Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises; 5 Whose are the fathers, and of whom as… Read the whole commentary →

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