1. I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit,
2. that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.
3. For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers’ sake, my relatives according to the flesh,
4. who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;
5. of whom are the fathers, and from whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God, blessed forever. Amen.
6. But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel, that are of Israel.
7. Neither, because they are Abraham’s offspring, are they all children. But, “your offspring will be accounted as from Isaac.”
8. That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as heirs.
9. For this is a word of promise, “At the appointed time I will come, and Sarah will have a son.”
10. Not only so, but Rebekah also conceived by one, by our father Isaac.