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Romans 9:3

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I wish I could help my Jewish brothers and sisters, my people. I would even wish that I were cursed and cut off from Christ if that would help them.

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Then Laban said, “You are my own flesh and blood.” Jacob stayed there a month.

Then the king was very upset, and he went to the room over the city gate and cried. As he went, he cried out, “My son Absalom, my son Absalom! I wish I had died and not you. Absalom, my son, my son!”

I could not stand to see that terrible thing happen to my people. I could not stand to see my family killed.”

Now, please forgive them of this sin. If you will not, then erase my name from the book in which you have written the names of your people.”

“Brothers, sons of the family of Abraham, and others who worship God, listen! The news about this salvation has been sent to us.

The high priest and the whole council of elders can tell you this is true. They gave me letters to the brothers in Damascus. So I was going there to arrest these people and bring them back to Jerusalem to be punished.

They answered Paul, “We have received no letters from Judea about you. None of our Jewish brothers who have come from there brought news or told us anything bad about you.

The Good News is about God’s Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. As a man, he was born from the family of David. But through the Spirit of holiness he was declared to be God’s Son with great power by rising from the dead.

So I ask: Did God throw out his people? No! I myself am an Israelite from the family of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.

I hope I can make my own people jealous and, in that way, help some of them to be saved.

Greetings to Herodion, my fellow citizen. Greetings to all those in the family of Narcissus who belong to the Lord.

Timothy, a worker together with me, sends greetings, as well as Lucius, Jason, and Sosipater, my relatives.

Greetings to Andronicus and Junia, my relatives, who were in prison with me. They are very important apostles. They were believers in Christ before I was.

I have great sorrow and always feel much sadness.

So I want you to understand that no one who is speaking with the help of God’s Spirit says, “Jesus be cursed.” And no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” without the help of the Holy Spirit.

If anyone does not love the Lord, let him be separated from God—lost forever! Come, O Lord!

So I am happy to give everything I have for you, even myself. If I love you more, will you love me less?

We preached to you the Good News. So if we ourselves, or even an angel from heaven, should preach to you something different, we should be judged guilty!

I said this before, and now I say it again: You have already accepted the Good News. If anyone is preaching something different to you, let that person be judged guilty!

But those who depend on following the law to make them right are under a curse, because the Scriptures say, “Anyone will be cursed who does not always obey what is written in the Book of the Law.”

Christ took away the curse the law put on us. He changed places with us and put himself under that curse. It is written in the Scriptures, “Anyone whose body is displayed on a tree is cursed.”

Slaves, obey your masters here on earth with fear and respect and from a sincere heart, just as you obey Christ.

But don’t leave his body hanging on the tree overnight; be sure to bury him that same day, because anyone whose body is displayed on a tree is cursed by God. You must not ruin the land the Lord your God is giving you as your own.

The men of Israel were miserable that day because Saul had made an oath for all of them. He had said, “No one should eat food before evening and before I finish defeating my enemies. If he does, he will be cursed!” So no Israelite soldier ate food.

Saul said, “Jonathan, if you don’t die, may God punish me terribly.”




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