Romans 9:1-5

21st Century King James Version

9 I speak 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 I myself were accursed from Christ for the sake of my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh,

⁴ who are Israelites and 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 of whom are the fathers, and from whom, according to the flesh, Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.