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;
7. neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are all sons, but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.
8. That is, Those who are sons of the flesh, these are not the sons of God; but those who are sons of the promise are counted in the generation.
9. For the word of the promise is this, At this time I will come, and Sara shall have a son.
10. And not only this, but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac
11. (for the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand: not of works, but of him that calls),
12. it was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.
13. As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
14. What shall we say then? Is there injustice in God? No, in no wise.
15. For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.