Romans 9:1-4 ▼

1 Truth I say in Christ, I do not lie, my conscience bearing testimony with me in the Holy Spirit,

2 that I have great grief and unceasing pain in my heart—

3 for I was wishing, I myself, to be accursed from the Christ—for my brothers, my relatives, according to the flesh,

4 who are Israelites, whose [is] the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the lawgiving, and the service, and the promises,