Haweis(i)
1 I SPEAK the truth in Christ, I lie not, (my conscience also bearing witness to me in the Holy Ghost,)
2 that great is my sorrow and unceasing the anguish in my heart.
3 For could I myself wish that an anathema should be from Christ upon my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh?
4 who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the gift of the law, and the sacred service, and the promises;
5 of whom are the fathers, and from whom as respecting the flesh Christ sprung, who is over all, the blessed God for evermore. Amen.
6 Now it is not supposable that the word of God hath failed. For these are not all Israel, who are of Israel:
7 nor, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, in Isaac shall thy seed be called.
8 That is, not the children of the flesh, these are the children of God: but the children of the promise are accounted for the seed.
9 For the word of promise is this, At that time will I come, and Sarah shall have a son.
10 And not only so; but when Rebecca also had conception by one, even Isaac our father;
11 (though the children were not yet born, nor had done any thing good or evil, that according to the election of God the purpose might abide, not from works, but from him who called;)