Romans 9

¹I say [the] truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing witness with me in [the] Holy Spirit,

²that I have great grief and uninterrupted pain in my heart,

³for I have wished, I myself, to be a curse from the Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen, according to flesh;

⁴who are Israelites; whose [is] the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the law-giving, and the service, and the promises;

⁵whose [are] the fathers; and of whom, as according to flesh, [is] the Christ, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.

⁶Not however as though the word of God had failed; for not all [are] Israel which [are] of Israel;

⁷nor because they are seed of Abraham [are] all children: but, In Isaac shall a seed be called to thee.

⁸That is, [they that are] the children of the flesh, these [are] not the children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned as seed.

⁹For this word [is] of promise, According to this time I will come, and there shall be a son to Sarah.

¹⁰And not only [that], but Rebecca having conceived by one, Isaac our father,

¹¹[the children] indeed being not yet born, or having done anything good or worthless (that the purpose of God according to election might abide, not of works, but of him that calls),

¹²it was said to her, The greater shall serve the less:

¹³according as it is written, I have loved Jacob, and I have hated Esau.