Romans 9:1-3

New Testament for Everyone

The privileges and tragedy of Israel

9 I’m speaking the truth in the Messiah, I’m not lying. I call my conscience as witness, in the holy spirit, ² that I have great sorrow and endless pain in my heart. ³ Left to my own self, I am half inclined to pray that I would be accursed, cut off from the Messiah, on behalf of my own family, my own flesh-and-blood relatives.