Paul's Deep Sorrow for Israel

Romans 9:1-5

Truth I say in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing testimony with me in the Holy Spirit,

that I have great grief and unceasing pain in my heart--

for I was wishing, I myself, to be anathema from the Christ--for my brethren, my kindred, according to the flesh,

who are Israelites, whose is the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the lawgiving, and the service, and the promises,

whose are the fathers, and of whom is the Christ, according to the flesh, who is over all, God blessed to the ages. Amen.