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,
5. to whom belong the patriarchs, and from whom, according to the flesh, is Christ, who is over all, God forever blessed. Amen.
6. It is not as though the word of God has failed. For they are not all Israel who are descended from Israel,
7. nor are they all children because they are descendants of Abraham, but “In Isaac shall your descendants be called.”