1 I am speaking the truth in Christ, I am not lying; my conscience testifies with me in the Holy Spirit,
2 that I have great sorrow and continual anguish in my heart.
3 For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers, my kinsmen by race,
4 who are Israelites, to whom belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service of God, and the promises,
5 to whom belong the patriarchs, and from whom, according to the flesh, is Christ, who is over all, God forever blessed. Amen.
6 It is not as though the word of God has failed. For they are not all Israel who are descended from Israel,
7 nor are they all children because they are descendants of Abraham, but “In Isaac shall your descendants be called.”