Romans 9:3

American Standard Version (1901)

For I could wish that I myself were anathema from Christ for my brethren's sake, my kinsmen according to the flesh:

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  • Exod 32:32 : 32 Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin--; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.
  • Gal 1:8 : 8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach unto you any gospel other than that which we preached unto you, let him be anathema.
  • Rom 11:14 : 14 if by any means I may provoke to jealousy [them that are] my flesh, and may save some of them.
  • 1 Cor 12:3 : 3 Wherefore I make known unto you, that no man speaking in the Spirit of God saith, Jesus is anathema; and no man can say, Jesus is Lord, but in the Holy Spirit.
  • 1 Cor 16:22 : 22 If any man loveth not the Lord, let him be anathema. Maranatha.
  • Gal 3:13 : 13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us; for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
  • Gen 29:14 : 14 And Laban said to him, Surely thou art my bone and my flesh. And he abode with him the space of a month.
  • Gal 3:10 : 10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one who continueth not in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.
  • Deut 21:23 : 23 his body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt surely bury him the same day; for he that is hanged is accursed of God; that thou defile not thy land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.
  • Josh 6:17-18 : 17 And the city shall be devoted, even it and all that is therein, to Jehovah: only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent. 18 But as for you, only keep yourselves from the devoted thing, lest when ye have devoted it, ye take of the devoted thing; so would ye make the camp of Israel accursed, and trouble it.
  • 1 Sam 14:24 : 24 And the men of Israel were distressed that day; for Saul had adjured the people, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth any food until it be evening, and I be avenged on mine enemies. So none of the people tasted food.
  • 1 Sam 14:44 : 44 And Saul said, God do so and more also; for thou shalt surely die, Jonathan.
  • Esth 8:6 : 6 for how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?
  • Acts 7:23-26 : 23 But when he was well-nigh forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel. 24 And seeing one [of them] suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed, smiting the Egyptian: 25 and he supposed that his brethren understood that God by his hand was giving them deliverance; but they understood not. 26 And the day following he appeared unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one to another?
  • Acts 13:26 : 26 Brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and those among you that fear God, to us is the word of this salvation sent forth.
  • Rom 11:1 : 1 I say then, Did God cast off his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

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    1I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing witness with me in the Holy Spirit,

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

  • Rom 10:1-2
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    1Brethren, my heart's desire and my supplication to God is for them, that they may be saved.

    2For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

  • Rom 9:4-5
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    4who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service [of God], and the promises;

    5whose are the fathers, and of whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.

  • Rom 11:1
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    1I say then, Did God cast off his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

  • Rom 11:14
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    14if by any means I may provoke to jealousy [them that are] my flesh, and may save some of them.

  • Gal 4:15
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    15Where then is that gratulation of yourselves? for I bear you witness, that, if possible, ye would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me.

  • Gal 5:11-12
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    11But I, brethren, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? then hath the stumbling-block of the cross been done away.

    12I would that they that unsettle you would even go beyond circumcision.

  • Gal 6:12-14
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    12As many as desire to make a fair show in the flesh, they compel you to be circumcised; only that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.

    13For not even they who receive circumcision do themselves keep the law; but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.

    14But far be it from me to glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world hath been crucified unto me, and I unto the world.

  • Phil 1:8
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    8For God is my witness, how I long after you all in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.

  • 1 Cor 9:23
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    23And I do all things for the gospel's sake, that I may be a joint partaker thereof.

  • Phil 3:4-7
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    4though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh: if any other man thinketh to have confidence in the flesh, I yet more:

    5circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;

    6as touching zeal, persecuting the church; as touching the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.

    7Howbeit what things were gain to me, these have I counted loss for Christ.

  • Rom 11:27-28
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    27And this is my covenant unto them, When I shall take away their sins.

    28As touching the gospel, they are enemies for your sake: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sake.

  • Gal 1:9-10
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    9As we have said before, so say I now again, if any man preacheth unto you any gospel other than that which ye received, let him be anathema.

    10For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? or am I striving to please men? if I were still pleasing men, I should not be a servant of Christ.

  • Phlm 1:13
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    13whom I would fain have kept with me, that in thy behalf he might minister unto me in the bonds of the gospel:

  • Acts 26:29
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    29And Paul [said], I would to God, that whether with little or with much, not thou only, but also all that hear me this day, might become such as I am, except these bonds.

  • Gal 3:13
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    13Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us; for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:

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    16no longer as a servant, but more than a servant, a brother beloved, specially to me, but how much rather to thee, both in the flesh and in the Lord.

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    9For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

  • 1 Cor 9:19-21
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    19For though I was free from all [men], I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.

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    21to them that are without law, as without law, not being without law to God, but under law to Christ, that I might gain them that are without law.

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    22Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.

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    31that I may be delivered from them that are disobedient in Judaea, and [that] my ministration which [I have] for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints;

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    13For ye have heard of my manner of life in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and made havoc of it:

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    10For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one who continueth not in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.

  • Gal 4:12
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    12I beseech you, brethren, become as I [am], for I also [am become] as ye [are] . Ye did me no wrong:

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    19For I through the law died unto the law, that I might live unto God.

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    24Wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me out of the body of this death?

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    2If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord.

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    1For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus in behalf of you Gentiles,--

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    13Even as it is written, Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.