JMNT(i)
3 For you see, I kept on claiming, while having goodness, holding well-being and possessing ease, that I myself am to be (or: to continuously exist [as])
a result or an effect of something set up as an offering devoted to God (= a sacrifice; [comment: this would correspond to Jesus telling His disciples to follow Him, bearing their crosses]),
forth from the Anointing (or: = [thus being separated] from [the body] of Christ; or: arising from the Christ)
over [
the situation of]
(or: for the sake of)
my brothers, my relatives (kinsmen; joint or commonly born ones; fellow countrymen)
according to flesh (= in the sphere of natural human birth),
4 the very ones who are Israelites, whose [is] the placing in the condition of a son (or: the deposit of the Son; the setting in place which is the Son; the constituting as a son)
and the glory (the things which call forth praise and bring a splendid reputation)
and the arrangements(or: covenants; [other MSS: the Covenant)
and the placing of the Law (or: even the setting of custom and legislation by/as [Torah])
and the sacred service and the promises,
5 whose [
are]
the fathers (= ancestors)
and forth from out of the midst of whom [
is]
the Christ, the [
descendant]
down the line of flesh (or: on the level of the human realm) –
the One continuously being upon all mankind: God, worthy of praise and blessing on into the ages! It is so (or: – corresponding to natural descent – [is] the Anointed One [= the Messiah] who exists being God: One with a message of goodness, ease and well-being – superimposed on all things – on into the indefinite time periods! Amen – count on it)!