1 I speak the truth in Messiah, I do not lie, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Set-apart Spirit,
2 that I have great sadness and continual grief in my heart.
3 For I myself could have wished to be banished from Messiah for the sake of my brothers, my relatives according to the flesh,
4 who are Yisra’ĕlites, whose is the adoption, and the esteem, and the covenants, and the giving of the Torah, and the worship, and the promises,