1. Truth I say in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing testimony with me in the Holy Spirit,
2. that I have great grief and unceasing pain in my heart--
3. for I was wishing, I myself, to be anathema from the Christ--for my brethren, my kindred, according to the flesh,
4. who are Israelites, whose [is] the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the lawgiving, and the service, and the promises,
5. whose [are] the fathers, and of whom [is] the Christ, according to the flesh, who is over all, God blessed to the ages. Amen.
6. And it is not possible that the word of God hath failed; for not all who [are] of Israel are these 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, the children of the flesh--these [are] not children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned for seed;
9. for the word of promise [is] this; `According to this time I will come, and there shall be to Sarah a son.'
10. And not only [so], but also Rebecca, having conceived by one--Isaac our father--