Coverdale(i)
1 I saye the trueth in Christ, and lye not (wherof my conscience beareth me witnesse in the holy goost)
2 that I haue greate heuynesse & contynuall sorowe in my hert.
3 I haue wysshed my selfe to be cursed from Christ for my brethren, that are my kynsmen after the flesh,
4 which are off Israel: vnto whom pertayneth the childshippe, and the glory, and the couenauntes and lawe, and the seruyce of God, and the promyses:
5 whose are also the fathers, off whom (after the flesh) commeth Christ, which is God ouer all, blessed for euer, Ame.
6 But I speake not these thinges, as though the worde of God were of none effecte: for they are not all Israelites, which are of Israel:
7 nether are they all children, because they are the sede of Abraham: but in Isaac shal the sede be called
8 vnto the, that is, They which are children after the flesh, are not the children of God, but the children of the promes are counted for the sede.
9 For this is a worde of the promes, where he sayeth: Aboute this tyme wyl I come, and Sara shal haue a sonne.
10 Howbeit it is not so with this onely, but also whan Rebecca was with childe by one (namely by oure father Isaac)
11 or euer the childre were borne, & had done nether good ner bad (that the purpose of God might stode acordinge to the eleccion, not by the deseruynge of workes, but by the grace of the caller)