For I would wish myself to be [a]separate from Christ, for my brethren that are my kinsmen according to the [b]flesh,

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 9:3 The Apostle loved his brethren so entirely, that if it have been possible he would have been ready to have redeemed the casting away of the Israelites, with the loss of his own soul forever: for this word separate, betokeneth as much in this place.
  2. Romans 9:3 Being brethren by flesh, as of one nation and country.

13 [a]For ye have heard of my conversation in time past, in the Jewish religion, how that (A)I persecuted the Church of God extremely, and wasted it,

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  1. Galatians 1:13 He proveth that he was extraordinarily taught of Christ himself, by the history of his former life, which the Galatians themselves know well enough: for saith he, it is well known in what school I was brought up, even from a child, to wit, amongst the deadly enemies of the Gospel. And no man may cavil and say that I was a scholar of the Pharisees in name only and not in deed, no man is ignorant, how that I excelled in Pharisaism, and was suddenly made of a Pharisee, an Apostle of the Gentiles, so that I had no space to be instructed of men.

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