1. I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me testimony in the Holy Spirit,
2. That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
3. For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ, for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
4. Who are Israelites; to whom pertain the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;
5. Whose are the fathers, and from whom according to the flesh, Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.