1. I am speaking the truth in Christ, I am not lying; my conscience testifies with me in the Holy Spirit,
2. that I have great sorrow and continual anguish in my heart.
3. For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers, my kinsmen by race,
4. who are Israelites, to whom belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service of God, and the promises,