3 Bible Verses about Prayer For Jerusalem

I could wish that I were myself accursed and severed from the Christ, for the sake of my Brothers-my own countrymen. For they are Israelites, and theirs are the adoption as Sons, the visible Presence, the Covenants, the revealed Law, the Temple worship, and the Promises.

For 'every one who invokes the Name of the Lord shall be saved.' But how, it may be asked, are they to invoke one in whom they have not learned to believe? And how are they to believe in one whose words they have not heard? And how are they to hear his words unless some one proclaims him?

I ask, then, 'Has God rejected his People?' Heaven forbid! For I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.