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. They are God's people; he made them his children and revealed his glory to them; he made his covenants with them and gave them the Law; they have the true worship; they have received God's promises;
5. they are descended from the famous Hebrew ancestors; and Christ, as a human being, belongs to their race. May God, who rules over all, be praised for ever! Amen.
6. I am not saying that the promise of God has failed; for not all the people of Israel are the people of God.
7. Nor are all Abraham's descendants the children of God. God said to Abraham, “It is through Isaac that you will have the descendants I promised you.”