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.
6. Not however as though the word of God had failed; for not all are Israel which are of Israel;
7. nor because they are seed of Abraham are all children: but, In Isaac shall a seed be called to thee.
8. That is, they that are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned as seed.
9. For this word is of promise, According to this time I will come, and there shall be a son to Sarah.