1. I speak the truth in Messiah, I do not lie, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Set-apart Spirit,
2. that I have great sadness and continual grief in my heart.
3. For I myself could have wished to be banished from Messiah for the sake of my brothers, my relatives according to the flesh,
4. who are Yisra’ĕlites, whose is the adoption, and the esteem, and the covenants, and the giving of the Torah, and the worship, and the promises,