concerning his Son who was a descendant of David with reference to the flesh,

What then shall we say that Abraham, our ancestor according to the flesh, has discovered regarding this matter?

So then, brothers and sisters, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh

if somehow I could provoke my people to jealousy and save some of them.

so that the righteous requirement of the law may be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

For those who live according to the flesh have their outlook shaped by the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit have their outlook shaped by the things of the Spirit.

(for if you live according to the flesh, you will die), but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body you will live.

For I could wish that I myself were accursed – cut off from Christ – for the sake of my people, my fellow countrymen,

To them belong the patriarchs, and from them, by human descent, came the Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever! Amen.