Verse help?

[feliciakw]

Hey, gang. I'm hoping someone here can point me in the right direction. I could swear--I mean, I'm 99% sure--there's a passage in the NT wherein Paul (at least, I think it's Paul. It sounds like something Paul would say) says something to the effect that he would rather trade his own salvation than see his flock stray. Or something like that. But none of my word searches in my concordance are helping. Can someone point me to that verse?

Thanks muchly!

Comments

[scionofgrace.livejournal.com]

I know what you're talking about, he's referring to the Jews. Can't for the life of me remember the passage... is it in Romans?

::digs out concordance::

Can't find it either. Grrr.

[feliciakw.livejournal.com]

I figured out why I couldn't find it: the words I was using, and how I interpret it in my brain, do not appear in the actual text:

salvation
assure
If I could
I would

That kind of thing.

[izhilzha.livejournal.com]

My intial word search was with "I could wish," which is totally in the NIV translation where I was searching, but didn't turn up anything! I had to read through the middle of the entire book of Romans to find it. LOL