Romans 9:3 BSB — MannaFest

Romans 9:3

For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my own flesh and blood,

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

For I could wish that I myself were anathema from Christ for my brethren’s sake, my kinsmen according to the flesh:

KJV

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

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Commentary

3 voices

Origen of Alexandria

COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS (253)

Consider, however, the greatness of the apostolic breast. He cannot be separated from the love of God; what he speaks, he speaks in Christ; what he holds in his conscience is contained by the Holy Spirit. What heavens, I ask, what thrones, what most ample minds of the heavenly powers will be able to contain the whole Trinity in seats so ample? "For," he says, "I have great sadness and continual sorrow in my heart."

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

As if he had said, I could wish to suffer in their stead; yea, to be an anathema from Christ in their place. In how high a sense he wished this, who can tell, unless himself had been asked and had resolved the question? Certainly he did not then consider himself at all, but only others and the glory of God.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

For I could wish ... - This passage has been greatly controverted. Some have proposed to translate it, “I did wish,” as referring to a former state, when he renounced Christ, and sought to advance the interests of the nation by opposing and defying him. But to this interpretation there are insuperable objections. (1) The object of the apostle is not to state his former feelings, but his present attachment to his countrymen, and willingness to suffer for them.

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Original language & word study

18 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ηὐχόμην	ēuchomēn	was wishing	G2172 →
γὰρ	gar	for	G1063 →
ἀνάθεμα	anathema	a curse	G331 →
εἶναι	einai	to be	G1511 →
αὐτὸς	autos	[my]self	G846 →
ἐγὼ	egō	I myself	G1473 →
ἀπὸ	apo	separated from	G575 →
τοῦ	tou	<the>	G3588 →
Χριστοῦ	Christou	Christ	G5547 →
ὑπὲρ	huper	for	G5228 →
τῶν	tōn	the	G3588 →
ἀδελφῶν	adelphōn	brothers	G80 →
μου	mou	of mine	G3165 →
τῶν	tōn	the	G3588 →
συγγενῶν	sungenōn	kinsmen	G4773 →
μου	mou	of mine	G3165 →
κατὰ	kata	according to	G2596 →
σάρκα·	sarka	[the] flesh;	G4561 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Galatians 3:10
All who rely on works of the law are under a curse. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”
leads to
- Deuteronomy 27:26
  ‘Cursed is he who does not put the words of this law into practice.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
- Romans 8:7
  because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.
- Romans 3:19–20
  Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.
- Deuteronomy 11:26–28
  See, today I am setting before you a blessing and a curse—
- James 2:9–11
  But if you show favoritism, you sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.
Through
Exodus 32:32
Yet now, if You would only forgive their sin.... But if not, please blot me out of the book that You have written.”
leads to
- Psalms 69:28
  May they be blotted out of the Book of Life and not listed with the righteous.
- Revelation 21:27
  But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who practices an abomination or a lie, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
- Philippians 4:3
  Yes, and I ask you, my true yokefellow, to help these women who have labored with me for the gospel, along with Clement and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in…