Romans 9:1-5

Modern English Version

God’s Election of Israel

9 I am speaking the truth in Christ, I am not lying; my conscience testifies with me in the Holy Spirit, ² that I have great sorrow and continual anguish in my heart. ³ For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers, my kinsmen by race, ⁴ who are Israelites, to whom belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service of God, and the promises, ⁵ to whom belong the patriarchs, and from whom, according to the flesh, is Christ, who is over all, God forever blessed. Amen.