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Romans 9:3 (KJV)

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

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Romans 9 — surrounding verses

1

I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,

2

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

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

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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;

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

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

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

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That 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.

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