3 For I would pray that I myself were cursed, banished from Messiah for the sake of my people—my own flesh and blood,
4 who are Israelites. To them belong the adoption and the glory and the covenants and the giving of the Torah and the Temple service and the promises.
5 To them belong the patriarchs—and from them, according to the flesh, the Messiah, who is over all, God, blessed forever. Amen.
6 But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all those who are descended from Israel are Israel,
7 nor are they all children because they are Abraham’s seed; rather, “Your seed shall be called through Isaac.”
8 That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God; rather, the children of the promise are counted as seed.
9 For the word of promise is this: “At this time I will come, and Sarah shall have a son.”