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Romans 9:2-4
Good News Translation
Romans 9:2-4
Good News Translation
2 when I say how great is my sorrow, how endless the pain in my heart 3 for my people, my own flesh and blood! For their sake I could wish that I myself were under God's curse and separated from Christ. 4 (A)They are God's people; he made them his children and revealed his glory to them; he made his covenants[a] with them and gave them the Law; they have the true worship; they have received God's promises;
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- Romans 9:4 covenants; some manuscripts have covenant.
Romans 9:2-4
King James Version
Romans 9:2-4
King James Version
2 That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
3 For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
4 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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Romans 9:2-4
New King James Version
Romans 9:2-4
New King James Version
2 (A)that I have great sorrow and continual grief in my heart. 3 For (B)I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my [a]countrymen according to the flesh, 4 who are Israelites, (C)to whom pertain the adoption, (D)the glory, (E)the covenants, (F)the giving of the law, (G)the service of God, and (H)the promises;
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- Romans 9:3 Or relatives
Romans 9:2-4
New International Version
Romans 9:2-4
New International Version
2 I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. 3 For I could wish that I myself(A) were cursed(B) and cut off from Christ for the sake of my people,(C) those of my own race,(D) 4 the people of Israel.(E) Theirs is the adoption to sonship;(F) theirs the divine glory,(G) the covenants,(H) the receiving of the law,(I) the temple worship(J) and the promises.(K)
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