1: I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,

2: That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.

3: For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:

4: Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;

5: Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.