1 Truth I say in Christ, I lie not, 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 anathema from the Christ  -- for my brethren, my kindred, 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,
         
                                
                        5 whose [are] the fathers, and of whom [is] the Christ,  according to the flesh, who is over all, God blessed to the  ages. Amen.
         
                                
                        6 And it is not possible that the word of God hath failed; for  not all who [are] of Israel are these Israel;
         
                                
                        7 nor because they are seed of Abraham [are] all children, but  -- `in Isaac shall a seed be called to thee;`