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3 for I could wish myself accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my natural kindred.
4 For they are Israelites, and to them belong the rights of sonship, God's glorious presence, the divine agreements and legislation, the Temple service, the promises,
5 and the patriarchs, and from them physically Christ came—God who is over all be blessed forever! Amen.
6 Not that God's message has failed. For not everybody who is descended from Israel really belongs to Israel,
7 nor are they all children of Abraham because they are descended from him, but he was told, "The line of Isaac will be called your descendants."
8 That is to say, it is not his physical descendants who are children of God, but his descendants born in fulfilment of the promise who are considered his true posterity.