Romans 9:3

Authorized King James Version (1611)

For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, 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, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
  • Rom 11:14 : 14 If by any means I may provoke to emulation [them which are] my flesh, and might save some of them.
  • 1 Cor 12:3 : 3 Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and [that] no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.
  • 1 Cor 16:22 : 22 If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha.
  • Gal 3:13 : 13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made 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 the curse: for it is written, Cursed [is] every one that continueth not in all things which 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 in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged [is] accursed of God;) that thy land be not defiled, which the LORD thy God giveth thee [for] an inheritance.
  • Josh 6:17-18 : 17 ¶ And 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. 18 And ye, in any wise keep [yourselves] from the accursed thing, lest ye make [yourselves] accursed, when ye take of the accursed thing, and make the camp of Israel a curse, 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 evening, that I may be avenged on mine enemies. So none of the people tasted [any] food.
  • 1 Sam 14:44 : 44 And Saul answered, 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 And when he was full 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, and smote the Egyptian: 25 For he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would deliver them: but they understood not. 26 And the next day he shewed himself 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 Men [and] brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you feareth God, to you is the word of this salvation sent.
  • Rom 11:1 : 1 ¶ I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, [of] the tribe of Benjamin.

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    1¶ Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.

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    1¶ I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, [of] the tribe of Benjamin.

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    15Where is then the blessedness ye spake of? for I bear you record, that, if [it had been] possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me.

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    12As many as desire to make a fair shew in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.

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    8For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.

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    23And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I might be partaker thereof with [you].

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    4¶ Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more:

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

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    27For this [is] my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.

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    9As we said before, so say I now again, If any [man] preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.

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