1. I say the truth in Christ, I do not lie, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit,
2. that I have great sorrow and continual pain in my heart.
3. For I could wish that myself were anathema from Christ for my brethren, those who are my kinsmen according to the flesh,
4. who are Israelites, to whom pertains the adoption as sons 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 of whom as concerning the flesh is the Christ, who is God over all things, blessed for all the ages. Amen.
6. Not as though the word of God has been deficient. For not all the descendants of Israel are Israelites;