Romans 9:2-4

Good News Translation

² when I say how great is my sorrow, how endless the pain in my heart ³ for my people, my own flesh and blood! For their sake I could wish that I myself were under God's curse and separated from Christ. ^4 (A)They are God's people; he made them his children and revealed his glory to them; he made his covenants^[a] with them and gave them the Law; they have the true worship; they have received God's promises;