📜WEB · Romans 9:3

What does Romans 9:3 mean?

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

— Romans 9:3 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

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

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

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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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who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;

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

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But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel, that are of Israel.

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