Romans 9:2 · KJV
“That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.”
— Romans 9:2
I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,
For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh: {accursed: or, separated}
Romans 9 — Context
I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,
2That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
3For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh: {accursed: or, separated}
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; {covenants: or, testaments}
Cross References
Philippians 3:18
(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:
Lamentations 3:51
Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city. {mine heart: Heb. my soul} {because...: or, more than all}
Jeremiah 13:17
But 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.
Psalms 119:136
Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.
Romans 10:1
Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.
Luke 19:41-44
And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,
Ezekiel 9:4
And 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. {set a mark: Heb. mark a mark}
Lamentations 3:48-49
Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.