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Romans 9:2–3

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That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
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From verse 2

  1. Philippians 3:18Rank 1 from verse 2
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    18(For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:

  2. Jeremiah 13:17Rank 2 from verse 2
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    17But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the Lord’s flock is carried away captive.

  3. Lamentations 3:51Rank 3 from verse 2
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    51Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.

  4. Psalms 119:136Rank 4 from verse 2
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    136Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.

  5. Romans 10:1Rank 5 from verse 2
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    1BRETHREN, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.

  6. Luke 19:41–44Rank 6 from verse 2
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    41¶ And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,

    42Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.

    43For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side,

    44And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.

  7. Ezekiel 9:4Rank 7 from verse 2
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    4And the Lord said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.

  8. Jeremiah 9:1Rank 8 from verse 2
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    1OH that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

  9. Lamentations 3:48–49Rank 9 from verse 2
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    48Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

    49Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,

  10. 1 Samuel 15:35Rank 10 from verse 2
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    35And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the Lord repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.

  11. Isaiah 66:10Rank 11 from verse 2
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    10Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all ye that love her: rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn for her:

  12. Lamentations 1:12Rank 12 from verse 2
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    12Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.

  13. Revelation 11:3Rank 13 from verse 2
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    3And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.

From verse 3

  1. Exodus 32:32Rank 1 from verse 3
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    32Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin-; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.

  2. Esther 8:6Rank 2 from verse 3
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    6For 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?

  3. Romans 11:14Rank 3 from verse 3
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    14If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.

  4. Galatians 3:10Rank 4 from verse 3
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    10For 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.

  5. 1 Corinthians 16:22Rank 5 from verse 3
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    22If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maran-atha.

  6. 1 Corinthians 12:3Rank 6 from verse 3
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    3Wherefore 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.

  7. 1 Samuel 14:24Rank 7 from verse 3
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    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.

  8. 1 Samuel 14:44Rank 8 from verse 3
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    44And Saul answered, God do so and more also: for thou shalt surely die, Jonathan.

  9. Acts 13:26Rank 9 from verse 3
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    26Men and brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you feareth God, to you is the word of this salvation sent.

  10. Acts 7:23–26Rank 10 from verse 3
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    23And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.

    24And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian:

    25For he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would deliver them: but they understood not.

    26And 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?

  11. Deuteronomy 21:23Rank 11 from verse 3
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    23His 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.

  12. Galatians 3:13Rank 12 from verse 3
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    13Christ 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:

  13. Genesis 29:14Rank 13 from verse 3
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    14And Laban said to him, Surely thou art my bone and my flesh. And he abode with him the space of a month.

  14. Joshua 6:17–18Rank 14 from verse 3
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    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.

    18And 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.

  15. Romans 11:1Rank 15 from verse 3
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    1I 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.

  16. Galatians 1:8Rank 16 from verse 3
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    8But 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.

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Romans 9:2

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sorrow

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Sense 1: Grief, sadness, anguish, pain, regret, distress, trouble, or heaviness. Sense 2: To grieve or cause such pain.

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in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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heart

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Sense 1: The bodily organ. Sense 2: The inward person: the mind, will, affections, conscience, or moral character.

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Romans 9:3

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for

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1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

wish

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Sense 1: To desire or long for. Sense 2: An expressed desire.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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Christ

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The Anointed One; the same title as Messias.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Cawdrey 1604 · Webster 1828

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brethren

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1. Persons of the same people, tribe, community, or shared service who are regarded or addressed as brothers. 2. Persons regarded as brothers by reason of faith or another spiritual relation. 3. Male siblings or other male relatives.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

flesh

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Sense 1: The soft substance of the body. Sense 2: The body, human nature, kindred, or mankind.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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9:1I SAY the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,

9:2That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.

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9:3For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:

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9:4Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;

9:5Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.

9:6Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:

9:7Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.

9:8That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.

9:9For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sara shall have a son.

9:10And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac;

9:11(For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)

9:12It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.

9:13As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.

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