Romans 9:3
For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
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2That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
Cross References
Exodus 32:32Yet now, if you will forgive their sin--; and if not, blot me, I pray you, out of your book which you have written.
Joshua 6:17And the city shall be accursed, even it, and all that are therein, to the LORD: only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.
1 Samuel 14:44And Saul answered, God do so and more also: for you shall surely die, Jonathan.
Acts 7:23And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.
Romans 11:1I say then, Has God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
1 Corinthians 12:3Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit (o. pneuma) of God calls Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Spirit. (o. pneuma)
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 →