Verse 3

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

Referenced Verses

  • 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.