Romans 9:2
“That I haue great heauinesse, and continuall sorrow in my heart.”
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Romans 9:2 Context
1I say the trueth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing mee witnesse in the holy Ghost, 2That I haue great heauinesse, and continuall sorrow in my heart. 3For I could wish that my selfe were accursed from Christ, for my brethren my kinsemen according to the flesh: 4Who are Israelites: to whom perteineth the adoption, and the glory, and the couenants, and the giuing of the Law, and the seruice of God, and the promises:
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Other Translations for Romans 9:2
That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
- King James Version
that I have great sorrow and unceasing grief in my heart.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.
- American Standard Version (1901)
That I am full of sorrow and pain without end.
- Basic English Bible
that I have great grief and uninterrupted pain in my heart,
- Darby Bible
That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
- Webster's Bible
when I declare that I have deep grief and unceasing anguish of heart.
- Weymouth Bible
that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.
- World English Bible
for greet heuynesse is to me, and contynuel sorewe to my herte.
- Wycliffe Bible
that I have great grief and unceasing pain in my heart --
- Youngs Literal Bible
Wesley's Notes for Romans 9:2
9:2 I have great sorrow - A high degree of spiritual sorrow and of spiritual Joy may consist together, #Rom 8:39|. By declaring his sorrow for the unbelieving Jews, who excluded themselves from all the blessings he had enumerated, he shows that what he was now about to speak, he did not speak from any prejudice to them.
People's Bible Notes for Romans 9:2
Ro 9:2 That I have great heaviness, etc. Not so much that his countrymen are estranged from him, as that they were without the blessing of Christ.