Romans 9:3

9:3 For I could wish ¹  that I myself were accursed – cut off from Christ – for the sake of my people, ²  my fellow countrymen, ³ 

Romans 9:25

9:25 As he also says in Hosea:

“I will call those who were not my people, ‘My people,’ and I will call her who was unloved, ⁴  ‘My beloved.’” ⁵ 

[9:3]  ¹ tn Or “For I would pray.” The implied condition is “if this could save my fellow Jews.”

[9:3]  ² tn Grk “brothers.” See BDAG 18-19 s.v. ἀδελφός 2.b.

[9:3]  ³ tn Grk “my kinsmen according to the flesh.”

[9:25]  ⁴ tn Grk “and her who was not beloved, ‘Beloved.’”

[9:25]  ⁵ sn A quotation from Hos 2:23.