Romans 9:3

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Exod 32:32 : 32 Yet now, if you will, forgive their sin--and if not, please blot me out of your book which you have written."
  • Gal 1:8 : 8 But even though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you any "good news" other than that which we preached to you, let him be cursed.
  • Rom 11:14 : 14 if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and may save some of them.
  • 1 Cor 12:3 : 3 Therefore I make known to you that no man speaking by God's Spirit says, "Jesus is accursed." No one can say, "Jesus is Lord," but by the Holy Spirit.
  • 1 Cor 16:22 : 22 If any man doesn't love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be accursed. Come, Lord!
  • 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 everyone who hangs on a tree,"
  • Gen 29:14 : 14 Laban said to him, "Surely you are my bone and my flesh." He lived with him for 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 everyone who doesn't continue 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 on the tree, but you shall surely bury him the same day; for he who is hanged is accursed of God; that you don't defile your land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance.
  • Josh 6:17-18 : 17 The city shall be devoted, even it and all that is in it, to Yahweh. Only Rahab the prostitute shall live, she and all who 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 you have devoted it, you take of the devoted thing; so would you make the camp of Israel accursed, and trouble it.
  • 1 Sam 14:24 : 24 The men of Israel were distressed that day; for Saul had adjured the people, saying, "Cursed is the man who eats any food until it is evening, and I am avenged of my enemies." So none of the people tasted food.
  • 1 Sam 14:44 : 44 Saul said, "God do so and more also; for you shall surely die, Jonathan."
  • Esth 8:6 : 6 For how can I endure to see the evil that would come to my people? How can I endure to see the destruction of my relatives?"
  • Acts 7:23-26 : 23 But when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers, the children of Israel. 24 Seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him who was oppressed, striking the Egyptian. 25 He supposed that his brothers understood that God, by his hand, was giving them deliverance; but they didn't understand. 26 "The day following, he appeared to them as they fought, and urged them to be at peace again, saying, 'Sirs, you are brothers. Why do you wrong one another?'
  • Acts 13:26 : 26 Brothers, children of the stock of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, the word of this salvation is sent out to you.
  • Rom 11:1 : 1 I ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

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  • Rom 9:1-2
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    1 I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit,

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

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

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

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

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

  • Rom 11:1
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    1 I ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

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

  • Gal 4:15
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    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.

  • Gal 5:11-12
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    11 But I, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross has been removed.

    12 I wish that those who disturb you would cut themselves off.

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

    13 For even they who receive circumcision don't keep the law themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh.

    14 But far be it from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

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

  • 1 Cor 9:23
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    23 Now I do this for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it.

  • Phil 3:4-7
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    4 though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh. If any other man thinks that he has confidence in the flesh, I yet more:

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

    6 concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.

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

  • Rom 11:27-28
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    27 This is my covenant to them, when I will take away their sins."

    28 Concerning the Good News, they are enemies for your sake. But concerning the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sake.

  • Gal 1:9-10
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    9 As we have said before, so I now say again: if any man preaches to you any "good news" other than that which you received, let him be cursed.

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

  • Phlm 1:13
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    13 whom I desired to keep with me, that on your behalf he might serve me in my chains for the Good News.

  • Acts 26:29
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    29 Paul said, "I pray to God, that whether with little or with much, not only you, but also all that hear me this day, might become such as I am, except for these bonds."

  • Gal 3:13
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    13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,"

  • Phlm 1:16
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    16 no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, a beloved brother, especially to me, but how much rather to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.

  • 1 Cor 15:9
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    9 For I am the least of the apostles, who is not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God.

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

    20 To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law;

    21 to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law.

  • 2 Cor 11:22
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    22 Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? So am I.

  • Rom 15:31
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    31 that I may be delivered from those who are disobedient in Judea, and that my service which I have for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints;

  • Gal 1:13-14
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    13 For you have heard of my way of living in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the assembly of God, and ravaged it.

    14 I advanced in the Jews' religion beyond many of my own age among my countrymen, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

  • Gal 3:10
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    10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, "Cursed is everyone who doesn't continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them."

  • Gal 4:12
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    12 I beg you, brothers, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You did me no wrong,

  • Gal 2:19
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    19 For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.

  • 1 Cor 9:15
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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.

  • Rom 15:9
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    9 and that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written, "Therefore will I give praise to you among the Gentiles, and sing to your name."

  • Rom 7:24
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    24 What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?

  • 2 Cor 11:1
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    1 I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me.

  • Ps 69:8
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    8 I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother's children.

  • Phlm 1:9
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    9 yet for love's sake I rather beg, being such a one as Paul, the aged, but also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.

  • Rom 1:9
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    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,

  • 2 Tim 2:10
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    10 Therefore I endure all things for the chosen ones' sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

  • 1 Cor 9:2
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    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.

  • Eph 3:1
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    1 For this cause I, Paul, am the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles,

  • Rom 9:13
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    13 Even as it is written, "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated."