1. I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing witness with me in the Holy Spirit,
2. that I have great grief and uninterrupted pain in my heart,
3. for I have wished, I myself, to be a curse from the Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen, according to flesh;
4. who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the law-giving, and the service, and the promises;
5. whose are the fathers; and of whom, as according to flesh, is the Christ, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.