Romans 9:2

Bible in Basic English (1941)

That I am full of sorrow and pain without end.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 119:136 : 136 Rivers of water are flowing from my eyes, because men do not keep your law.
  • Jer 13:17 : 17 But if you do not give ear to it, my soul will be weeping in secret for your pride; my eye will be weeping bitterly, streaming with water, because the Lord's flock has been taken away as prisoners.
  • Lam 3:51 : 51 The Lord is unkind to my soul, more than all the daughters of my town.
  • Ezek 9:4 : 4 The Lord said to him, Go through the town, through the middle of Jerusalem, and put a mark on the brows of the men who are sorrowing and crying for all the disgusting things which are done in it.
  • Luke 19:41-44 : 41 And when he got near and saw the town, he was overcome with weeping for it, 42 Saying, If you, even you, had knowledge today, of the things which give peace! but you are not able to see them. 43 For the time will come when your attackers will put a wall round you, and come all round you and keep you in on every side, 44 And will make you level with the earth, and your children with you; and there will not be one stone resting on another in you, because you did not see that it was your day of mercy.
  • Phil 3:18 : 18 For there are those, of whom I have given you word before, and do so now with sorrow, who are haters of the cross of Christ;
  • 1 Sam 15:35 : 35 And Samuel never saw Saul again till the day of his death; but Samuel was sorrowing for Saul: and it was no longer the Lord's pleasure for Saul to be king over Israel.
  • Rom 10:1 : 1 Brothers, my heart's desire and my prayer to God for them is, that they may get salvation.
  • Lam 1:12 : 12 Come to me, all you who go by! Keep your eyes on me, and see if there is any pain like the pain of my wound, which the Lord has sent on me in the day of his burning wrath.
  • Lam 3:48-49 : 48 Rivers of water are running down from my eyes, for the destruction of the daughter of my people. 49 My eyes are streaming without stopping, they have no rest,
  • Isa 66:10 : 10 Have joy with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all you her lovers: take part in her joy, all you who are sorrowing for her:
  • Jer 9:1 : 1 If only my head was a stream of waters and my eyes fountains of weeping, so that I might go on weeping day and night for the dead of the daughter of my people!
  • Rev 11:3 : 3 And I will give orders to my two witnesses, and they will be prophets for a thousand, two hundred and sixty days, clothed with haircloth.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 I say what is true in Christ, and not what is false, my mind giving witness with me in the Holy Spirit,

  • 3 For I have a desire to take on myself the curse for my brothers, my family in the flesh:

  • 2 Cor 2:1-5
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    1 But it was my decision for myself, not to come again to you with sorrow.

    2 For if I give you sorrow, who then will make me glad, but he who is made sad by me?

    3 And I said this very thing in my letter, for fear that when I came I might have sorrow from those from whom it was right for me to have joy; being certain of this, that my joy is the joy of you all.

    4 For out of much trouble and pain of heart and much weeping I sent my letter to you; not to give you sorrow, but so that you might see how great is the love which I have to you.

    5 But if anyone has been a cause of sorrow, he has been so, not to me only, but in some measure to all of you (I say this that I may not be over-hard on you).

  • 8 For God is my witness, how my love goes out to you all in the loving mercies of Christ Jesus.

  • 17 My feet are near to falling, and my sorrow is ever before me.

  • 2 Cor 7:3-4
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    3 It is not with the purpose of judging you that I say this: for I have said before that you are in our hearts for life and death together.

    4 My words to you are without fear, I am full of pride on account of you: I have great comfort and joy in all our troubles.

  • 2 Cor 7:8-9
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    8 For though my letter gave you pain, I have no regret for it now, though I had before; for I see that the letter gave you pain, but only for a time.

    9 Now I am glad, not that you had sorrow, but that your sorrow was the cause of a change of heart; for yours was a holy sorrow so that you might undergo no loss by us in anything.

  • Phil 2:26-28
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    26 Because his heart was with you all, and he was greatly troubled because you had news that he was ill:

    27 For in fact he was ill almost to death: but God had mercy on him; and not only on him but on me, so that I might not have grief on grief.

    28 I have sent him, then, the more gladly, so that when you see him again, you may be happy and I may have the less sorrow.

  • 6 I am troubled, I am made low; I go weeping all the day.

  • 8 I am feeble and crushed down; I gave a cry like a lion because of the grief in my heart.

  • 30 Fighting the same fight which you saw in me, and now have word of in me.

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    27 In hard work and weariness, in frequent watchings, going without food and drink, cold and in need of clothing.

    28 In addition to all the other things, there is that which comes on me every day, the care of all the churches.

    29 Who is feeble and I am not feeble? who is in danger of falling, and I am not angry?

  • 1 Brothers, my heart's desire and my prayer to God for them is, that they may get salvation.

  • 9 For God is my witness, whose servant I am in spirit in the good news of his Son, that you are at all times in my memory and in my prayers,

  • Ps 31:9-10
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    9 Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am in trouble; my eyes are wasted with grief, I am wasted in soul and body.

    10 My life goes on in sorrow, and my years in weeping; my strength is almost gone because of my sin, and my bones are wasted away.

  • 8 For it is our desire that you may not be without knowledge of our trouble which came on us in Asia, that the weight of it was very great, more than our power, so that it seemed that we had no hope even of life:

  • 18 Sorrow has come on me! my heart in me is feeble.

  • 19 Sorrow is mine for I am wounded! my wound may not be made well; and I said, Cruel is my disease, I may not be free from it.

  • 13 I had no rest in my spirit because Titus my brother was not there: so I went away from them, and came into Macedonia.

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    15 But I have not made use of any of these things: and I am not writing this in the hope that it may be so for me: for it would be better for me to undergo death, than for any man to make this pride of mine of no effect.

    16 For if I am a preacher of the good news, I have no cause for pride in this; because I am forced to do so, for a curse is on me if I do not.

  • 4 My heart is deeply wounded, and the fear of death has come on me.

  • 8 And so, though I might, in the name of Christ, give you orders to do what is right,

  • 21 My heart was made bitter, and I was pained by the bite of grief:

  • 24 How unhappy am I! who will make me free from the body of this death?

  • 13 Though my desire was to keep him with me, to be my servant in the chains of the good news, in your place:

  • 9 And when I was present with you, and was in need, I let no man be responsible for me; for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, gave me whatever was needed; and in everything I kept myself from being a trouble to you, and I will go on doing so.

  • 23 For I see that you are prisoned in bitter envy and the chains of sin.

  • 10 So I take pleasure in being feeble, in unkind words, in needs, in cruel attacks, in troubles, on account of Christ: for when I am feeble, then am I strong.

  • 17 From this time on let no man be a trouble to me; because my body is marked with the marks of Jesus.

  • 24 Now I have joy in my pain because of you, and in my flesh I undergo whatever is still needed to make the sorrows of Christ complete, for the salvation of his body, the church;

  • 23 Only that the Holy Spirit makes clear to me in every town that prison and pains are waiting for me.

  • 4 Desiring to see you, keeping in my memory your weeping, so that I may be full of joy;

  • 23 But God is my witness that it was in pity for you that I did not come to Corinth at that time.

  • 2 If to others I am not an Apostle, at least I am one to you: for the fact that you are Christians is the sign that I am an Apostle.

  • 20 See, O Lord, for I am in trouble; the inmost parts of my body are deeply moved; my heart is turned in me; for I have been uncontrolled: outside the children are put to the sword, and in the house there is death.

  • 13 And I am not saying this so that others may get off free, while the weight comes on you:

  • 18 And in the same way do you be glad and have a part in my joy.

  • 15 Where then is that happy condition of yours? because I give you witness, that, if possible, you would have taken out your eyes and given them to me.