Read the Bible
KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE

Romans 9:2–4

TEXT EDITION
Pure Cambridge Edition selected
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:
Who 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;
Share
Email linkOpen a new message in your email app
Read chapterReport issue
More

PASSAGE SELECTION

Build from either side

3 selected · 30 available

Add or remove verses within this chapter. The study tools update with the selected passage.

SCRIPTURE WITH SCRIPTURE

Cross References

All 84 ranked passages are available for comparison.

From verse 2

  1. Philippians 3:18Rank 1 from verse 2
    Open

    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
    Open

    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
    Open

    51Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.

  4. Psalms 119:136Rank 4 from verse 2
    Open

    136Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.

  5. Romans 10:1Rank 5 from verse 2
    Open

    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
    Open

    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
    Open

    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
    Open

    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
    Open

    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
    Open

    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
    Open

    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
    Open

    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
    Open

    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
    Open

    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
    Open

    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
    Open

    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
    Open

    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
    Open

    22If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maran-atha.

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

    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
    Open

    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
    Open

    44And Saul answered, God do so and more also: for thou shalt surely die, Jonathan.

  9. Acts 13:26Rank 9 from verse 3
    Open

    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
    Open

    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
    Open

    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
    Open

    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
    Open

    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
    Open

    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
    Open

    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
    Open

    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.

From verse 4

  1. Ephesians 2:12Rank 1 from verse 4
    Open

    12That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:

  2. Psalms 147:19Rank 2 from verse 4
    Open

    19He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel.

  3. Genesis 17:2Rank 3 from verse 4
    Open

    2And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly.

  4. Romans 9:6Rank 4 from verse 4
    Open

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

  5. Acts 2:39Rank 5 from verse 4
    Open

    39For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.

  6. Deuteronomy 7:6Rank 6 from verse 4
    Open

    6For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God: the Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.

  7. Exodus 4:22Rank 7 from verse 4
    Open

    22And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the Lord, Israel is my son, even my firstborn:

  8. Hebrews 9:1Rank 8 from verse 4
    Open

    1THEN verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary.

  9. 1 Kings 8:11Rank 9 from verse 4
    Open

    11So that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud: for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of the Lord.

  10. Acts 3:25–26Rank 10 from verse 4
    Open

    25Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.

    26Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.

  11. Hebrews 6:13–17Rank 11 from verse 4
    Open

    13For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself,

    14Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.

    15And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

    16For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.

    17Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:

  12. Psalms 89:3Rank 12 from verse 4
    Open

    3I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant,

  13. Romans 8:15Rank 13 from verse 4
    Open

    15For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

  14. Deuteronomy 14:1Rank 14 from verse 4
    Open

    1YE are the children of the Lord your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

  15. Genesis 17:7Rank 15 from verse 4
    Open

    7And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.

  16. Hebrews 9:10Rank 16 from verse 4
    Open

    10Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.

  17. Jeremiah 31:33Rank 17 from verse 4
    Open

    33But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.

  18. John 1:17Rank 18 from verse 4
    Open

    17For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

  19. Luke 1:69–75Rank 19 from verse 4
    Open

    69And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David;

    70As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began:

    71That we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us;

    72To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant;

    73The oath which he sware to our father Abraham,

    74That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear,

    75In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.

  20. 1 Samuel 4:21–22Rank 20 from verse 4
    Open

    21And she named the child I-chabod, saying, The glory is departed from Israel: because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father in law and her husband.

    22And she said, The glory is departed from Israel: for the ark of God is taken.

  21. Acts 13:32–33Rank 21 from verse 4
    Open

    32And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers,

    33God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.

  22. Deuteronomy 29:1Rank 22 from verse 4
    Open

    1THESE are the words of the covenant, which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.

  23. Deuteronomy 29:14Rank 23 from verse 4
    Open

    14Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;

  24. Deuteronomy 31:16Rank 24 from verse 4
    Open

    16¶ And the Lord said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.

  25. Exodus 12:25Rank 25 from verse 4
    Open

    25And it shall come to pass, when ye be come to the land which the Lord will give you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall keep this service.

  26. Exodus 19:3–6Rank 26 from verse 4
    Open

    3And Moses went up unto God, and the Lord called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel;

    4Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles’ wings, and brought you unto myself.

    5Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:

    6And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.

  27. Exodus 24:7–8Rank 27 from verse 4
    Open

    7And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the Lord hath said will we do, and be obedient.

    8And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the Lord hath made with you concerning all these words.

  28. Exodus 34:27Rank 28 from verse 4
    Open

    27And the Lord said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.

  29. Exodus 40:34Rank 29 from verse 4
    Open

    34¶ Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.

  30. Ezekiel 20:11–12Rank 30 from verse 4
    Open

    11And I gave them my statutes, and shewed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them.

    12Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the Lord that sanctify them.

  31. Genesis 15:18Rank 31 from verse 4
    Open

    18In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:

  32. Genesis 17:10Rank 32 from verse 4
    Open

    10This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised.

  33. Genesis 32:28Rank 33 from verse 4
    Open

    28And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.

  34. Hebrews 8:6–10Rank 34 from verse 4
    Open

    6But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.

    7For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.

    8For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:

    9Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.

    10For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

  35. Hebrews 9:3Rank 35 from verse 4
    Open

    3And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all;

  36. Hosea 11:1Rank 36 from verse 4
    Open

    1WHEN Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.

  37. Isaiah 41:8Rank 37 from verse 4
    Open

    8But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.

  38. Isaiah 46:3Rank 38 from verse 4
    Open

    3¶ Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from the womb:

  39. Isaiah 5:2Rank 39 from verse 4
    Open

    2And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.

  40. Isaiah 60:19Rank 40 from verse 4
    Open

    19The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.

  41. Jeremiah 31:20Rank 41 from verse 4
    Open

    20Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the Lord.

  42. Jeremiah 31:9Rank 42 from verse 4
    Open

    9They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.

  43. Jeremiah 33:20–25Rank 43 from verse 4
    Open

    20Thus saith the Lord; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season;

    21Then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.

    22As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me.

    23Moreover the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying,

    24Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the Lord hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.

    25Thus saith the Lord; If my covenant be not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;

  44. John 1:47Rank 44 from verse 4
    Open

    47Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!

  45. Luke 1:54–55Rank 45 from verse 4
    Open

    54He hath holpen his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy;

    55As he spake to our fathers, to Abraham, and to his seed for ever.

  46. Matthew 21:33Rank 46 from verse 4
    Open

    33¶ Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country:

  47. Nehemiah 13:29Rank 47 from verse 4
    Open

    29Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites.

  48. Nehemiah 9:13–14Rank 48 from verse 4
    Open

    13Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments:

    14And madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and commandedst them precepts, statutes, and laws, by the hand of Moses thy servant:

  49. Numbers 7:89Rank 49 from verse 4
    Open

    89And when Moses was gone into the tabernacle of the congregation to speak with him, then he heard the voice of one speaking unto him from off the mercy seat that was upon the ark of testimony, from between the two cherubims: and he spake unto him.

  50. Psalms 63:2Rank 50 from verse 4
    Open

    2To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary.

  51. Psalms 73:1Rank 51 from verse 4
    Open

    1TRULY God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart.

  52. Psalms 78:61Rank 52 from verse 4
    Open

    61And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy’s hand.

  53. Psalms 89:34Rank 53 from verse 4
    Open

    34My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.

  54. Psalms 90:16Rank 54 from verse 4
    Open

    16Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children.

  55. Romans 3:2Rank 55 from verse 4
    Open

    2Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.

WORDS IN THIS PASSAGE

Definitions

Open a word for its full definition and concordance.

DEFINED WORDS

Romans 9:2

COMBINED MEANING

sorrow

↗

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

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

in

↗

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

COMBINED MEANING

heart

↗

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

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

Romans 9:3

COMBINED MEANING

for

↗

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

↗

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

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

COMBINED MEANING

Christ

↗

The Anointed One; the same title as Messias.

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

COMBINED MEANING

brethren

↗

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

↗

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

DEFINED WORDS

Romans 9:4

COMBINED MEANING

whom

↗

The objective form of who, referring to the person or persons acted upon or related to.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

glory

↗

Sense 1: Splendour, honour, praise, majesty, or a ground of rejoicing or boasting. Sense 2: To boast, exult, take pride, or rejoice in a person or thing.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

giving

↗

Present-participial or verbal-noun form of give, meaning to grant, hand, offer, supply, yield, or cause to have.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

law

↗

Sense 1: An authoritative rule, command, ordinance, instruction, standard, or body of requirements. Sense 2: The writings containing such instruction. Sense 3: A governing principle, power, regular order, or civil rule. Sense 4: In family compounds, relationship by marriage.

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

COMBINED MEANING

service

↗

Work, duty, ministry, worship, attendance, military obligation, or servitude performed for another.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

promises

↗

Sense 1: Assurances or pledges that something will be done or given. Sense 2: As a verb, gives such an assurance or pledge.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

FOLLOW THE THEME

Related Concepts

Choose a connected KJV word or phrase to find where it appears in scripture.

READ THE PASSAGE

View in context

Suggested context · Romans 9:1–13

The selected passage is highlighted. Context is a study aid.

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.

Selected passage

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

Selected passage

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;

Selected passage

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.

LOCAL PASTOR DIRECTORY

Ask a Pastor Near You

Enter a U.S. ZIP code to find nearby pastors committed to holding fast the faithful word.

Your ZIP is processed in this browser from local data. It is not sent to a ZIP lookup service or to a church. ZIP coordinates from GeoNames, licensed under CC BY 4.0.