³ Many peoples^(A) will come and say,

God’s Faithfulness

3 What advantage, then, is there in being a Jew, or what value is there in circumcision?

² Much in every way!^(A) First of all, the Jews have been entrusted with the very words of God.^(B)

⁴ the people of Israel.^(A) Theirs is the adoption to sonship;^(B) theirs the divine glory,^(C) the covenants,^(D) the receiving of the law,^(E) the temple worship^(F) and the promises.^(G)

⁵ Theirs are the patriarchs,^(A) and from them is traced the human ancestry of the Messiah,^(B) who is God over all,^(C) forever praised!^[a](D) Amen.

⁸ For I tell you that Christ has become a servant of the Jews^[a](A) on behalf of God’s truth, so that the promises^(B) made to the patriarchs might be confirmed

⁹ and, moreover, that the Gentiles^(A) might glorify God^(B) for his mercy. As it is written: