Romans 9:2

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 119:136 : 136 Streams of tears run down my eyes, because they don't observe your law. TZADI
  • Jer 13:17 : 17 But if you will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret for [your] pride; and my eye shall weep bitterly, and run down with tears, because Yahweh's flock is taken captive.
  • Lam 3:51 : 51 My eye affects my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
  • Ezek 9:4 : 4 Yahweh said to him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry over all the abominations that are done in its midst.
  • Luke 19:41-44 : 41 When he drew near, he saw the city and wept over it, 42 saying, "If you, even you, had known today the things which belong to your peace! But now, they are hidden from your eyes. 43 For the days will come on you, when your enemies will throw up a barricade against you, surround you, hem you in on every side, 44 and will dash you and your children within you to the ground. They will not leave in you one stone on another, because you didn't know the time of your visitation."
  • Phil 3:18 : 18 For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Christ,
  • 1 Sam 15:35 : 35 Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death; for Samuel mourned for Saul: and Yahweh grieved that he had made Saul king over Israel.
  • Rom 10:1 : 1 Brothers, my heart's desire and my prayer to God is for Israel, that they may be saved.
  • Lam 1:12 : 12 Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look, and see if there be any sorrow like my sorrow, which is brought on me, With which Yahweh has afflicted [me] in the day of his fierce anger.
  • Lam 3:48-49 : 48 My eye runs down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people. 49 My eye pours down, and doesn't cease, without any intermission,
  • Isa 66:10 : 10 "Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all you who love her: rejoice for joy with her, all you who mourn over her;
  • Jer 9:1 : 1 Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a spring of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
  • Rev 11:3 : 3 I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred sixty days, clothed in sackcloth."

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit,

  • 3 For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers' sake, my relatives according to the flesh,

  • 2 Cor 2:1-5
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    1 But I determined this for myself, that I would not come to you again in sorrow.

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

    3 And I wrote this very thing to you, so that, when I came, I wouldn't have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy would be shared by all of you.

    4 For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be made sorry, but that you might know the love that I have so abundantly for you.

    5 But if any has caused sorrow, he has caused sorrow, not to me, but in part (that I not press too heavily) to you all.

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

  • 17 For I am ready to fall. My pain is continually before me.

  • 2 Cor 7:3-4
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    3 I say this not to condemn you, for I have said before, that you are in our hearts to die together and live together.

    4 Great is my boldness of speech toward you. Great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort. I overflow with joy in all our affliction.

  • 2 Cor 7:8-9
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    8 For though I made you sorry with my letter, I do not regret it, though I did regret it. For I see that my letter made you sorry, though just for a while.

    9 I now rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that you were made sorry to repentance. For you were made sorry in a godly way, that you might suffer loss by us in nothing.

  • Phil 2:26-28
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    26 since he longed for you all, and was very troubled, because you had heard that he was sick.

    27 For indeed he was sick, nearly to death, but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, that I might not have sorrow on sorrow.

    28 I have sent him therefore the more diligently, that, when you see him again, you may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.

  • 6 I am pained and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.

  • 8 I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.

  • 30 having the same conflict which you saw in me, and now hear is in me.

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    27 in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.

    28 Besides those things that are outside, there is that which presses on me daily, anxiety for all the assemblies.

    29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don't burn with indignation?

  • 1 Brothers, my heart's desire and my prayer to God is for Israel, that they may be saved.

  • 9 For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Good News of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers,

  • Ps 31:9-10
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    9 Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.

    10 For my life is spent with sorrow, my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted away.

  • 8 For we don't desire to have you uninformed, brothers, concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life.

  • 18 Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! My heart is faint within me.

  • 19 Woe is me because of my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is [my] grief, and I must bear it.

  • 13 I had no relief for my spirit, because I didn't find Titus, my brother, but taking my leave of them, I went out into Macedonia.

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    15 But I have used none of these things, and I don't write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.

    16 For if I preach the Good News, I have nothing to boast about; for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me, if I don't preach the Good News.

  • 4 My heart is severely pained within me. The terrors of death have fallen on me.

  • 8 Therefore, though I have all boldness in Christ to command you that which is appropriate,

  • 21 For my soul was grieved. I was embittered in my heart.

  • 24 What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?

  • 13 whom I desired to keep with me, that on your behalf he might serve me in my chains for the Good News.

  • 9 When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn't a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so.

  • 23 For I see that you are in the gall of bitterness and in the bondage of iniquity."

  • 10 Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.

  • 17 From now on, let no one cause me any trouble, for I bear the marks of the Lord Jesus branded on my body.

  • 24 Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the assembly;

  • 23 except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions wait for me.

  • 4 longing to see you, remembering your tears, that I may be filled with joy;

  • 23 But I call God for a witness to my soul, that I didn't come to Corinth to spare you.

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

  • 20 See, Yahweh; for I am in distress; my heart is troubled; My heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: Abroad the sword bereaves, at home there is as death.

  • 13 For this is not that others may be eased and you distressed,

  • 18 In the same way, you also rejoice, and rejoice with me.

  • 15 What was the blessing you enjoyed? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me.