Sawyer(i)
1 (7:1) I SPEAK the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing me witness with the Holy Spirit,
2 that I have great grief and continual pain in my heart;
3 for I have wished that I was myself accursed from Christ for my brothers, my kindred according to the flesh,
4 who are Israelites, whose are the adoption and the glory, and the covenants and the giving of the law, and the service, and the promises,
5 whose are the fathers, and of whom is Christ, according to the flesh. He who is over all is God blessed forever, amen.
6 Not that the word of God has failed of being accomplished. For all are not Israel who are of Israel;
7 neither, because they are a posterity of Abraham, are they all children; but in Isaac shall your posterity be called;
8 that is, the children of the flesh are not the children of God, but the children of the promise are accounted the posterity.
9 For this was the word of promise; According to this time I will come, and Sarah shall have a son.
10 And not only this, but Rebecca also being with child by one, by our father Isaac—
11 for the children not yet being born, nor having done any thing good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might continue, not of works but of him that calls,—