1. I tell the truth in Messiah—I do not lie, my conscience assuring me in the Ruach ha-Kodesh—
2. that my sorrow is great and the anguish in my heart unending.
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,