"Yet now, if You will forgive their sin -- but if not, I pray, blot me out of Your book which You have written."

"his body shall not remain overnight on the tree, but you shall surely bury him that day, so that you do not defile the land which the LORD your God is giving you [as] an inheritance; for he who is hanged [is] accursed of God.

"Now the city shall be doomed by the LORD to destruction, it and all who [are] in it. Only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all who [are] with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.

"And you, by all means abstain from the accursed things, lest you become accursed when you take of the accursed things, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it.

And the men of Israel were distressed that day, for Saul had placed the people under oath, saying, "Cursed [is] the man who eats [any] food until evening, before I have taken vengeance on my enemies." So none of the people tasted food.

And Saul answered, "God do so and more also; for you shall surely die, Jonathan."

But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed.

For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse; for it is written, "Cursed [is] everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law, to do them."

Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, "Cursed [is] everyone who hangs on a tree"),

I say then, has God cast away His people? Certainly not! For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, [of] the tribe of Benjamin.

And Laban said to him, "Surely you [are] my bone and my flesh." And he stayed with him for a month.

"For how can I endure to see the evil that will come to my people? Or how can I endure to see the destruction of my countrymen?"

"Now when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren, the children of Israel.

"For he supposed that his brethren would have understood that God would deliver them by his hand, but they did not understand.

"Men [and] brethren, sons of the family of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, to you the word of this salvation has been sent.