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I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me testimony in the Holy Spirit,
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That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
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For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ, for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
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Who are Israelites; to whom [pertain] the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service [of God], and the promises;
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Whose [are] the fathers, and from whom according to the flesh, Christ [came], who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.