1. I SPEAK the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost:
2. That I have great sadness, and continual sorrow in my heart.
3. For I wished myself to be an anathema from Christ, for my brethren, who are my kinsmen according to the flesh,
4. Who are Israelites, to whom belongeth the adoption as of children, and the glory, and the testament, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises:
5. Whose are the fathers, and of whom is Christ, according to the flesh, who is over all things, God blessed for ever. Amen.
6. Not as though the word of God hath miscarried. For all are not Israelites that are of Israel: