I’ve been going through the Topical Guide looking for unusual meanings. (See my posts on Abominable and Abhor.) I came across an interesting verse, Romans 9:3
For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
Paul wishes he were accursed from Christ? What does that mean?
Wheat & Tares 
Maybe it will help if you look at this verse in the inspired version done by Joseph Smith which is currently owned by the RLDS church:
9:3 (For once I could have wished that myself were accursed from Christ,) for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh;
9:4 Who are Israelites; of whom are the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God,
9:5 And the promises which are made unto the fathers; and of whom, as concerning the flesh, Christ was, who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen.
Link here: http://www.restoredgospel.com/scriptures/VerseResults.asp?SelectedBook=Romans&SelectedChapter=9&SelectedStartVerse=&SelectedEndVerse=&B3=Submit&R3=0
It might also help to look at the 1828 Websters dictionary to see what the definition of ‘accursed’ was:
ACCURS”ED, pp. or a.
1. Doomed to destruction or misery:
The city shall be accursed. John 6.
2. Separated from the faithful; cast out of the church; excommunicated.
I could wish myself accursed from Christ.
3. Worthy of the curse; detestable; execrable.
Keep from the accursed thing. Josh. 6.
Hence,
4. Wicked; malignant in the extreme.
link: http://machaut.uchicago.edu/?action=search&word=accursed&resource=Webster%27s&quicksearch=on
Still baffled as to the sense of this, but I often am with Paul. At other times he casts eloquent light on the process of becoming converted and living by the spirit.
The paraphrase at http://www.gospeldoctrine.com/content/romans-9 explains verse 3 in a different way that seems more plausible to me.
“I almost wish that I could be accursed from Christ and cast out if that would somehow save my Jewish brethren and kinsmen.”
I remember as a young child my mother giving a testimony and saying that by joining the church she had lost all her friends and relatives. My friend asked me what she had meant by that. I said I didn’t know. She never left it but became stronger. If I understand what handlewithcare said
“the process of becoming converted and living by the spirit”
many of us may have gone through that a little. Maybe Paul did, too, but we have to choose who we want to be with, God or our friends. Outside of this, though, I’m not sure just what he meant.