²⁰ I declare before God that what I am writing to you is not a lie.

God’s Selection of Israel

9 With Christ as my witness, I speak with utter truthfulness. My conscience and the Holy Spirit confirm it.

³¹ God, the Father of our Lord Jesus, who is worthy of eternal praise, knows I am not lying.

¹⁰ As surely as the truth of Christ is in me, no one in all of Greece^[a] will ever stop me from boasting about this. ¹¹ Why? Because I don’t love you? God knows that I do.