For [if it were possible] I would wish that I myself were accursed, [separated, banished] from Christ for the sake [of the salvation] of my brothers, my natural kinsmen,

Brothers and sisters, my heart’s desire and my prayer to God for Israel is for their salvation.

Them that

But if you bear the name “Jew” and rely on the Law [for your salvation] and boast in [your special relationship to] God,

“You, Ezra, are to appoint magistrates and judges in accordance with the wisdom and instruction of your God which is in your hand, so that they may judge all the people who are in the province west of the [Euphrates] River; appoint those who know the laws of your God; and you may teach anyone who does not know them.

For the commandment is a lamp, and the teaching [of the law] is light,
And reproofs (rebukes) for discipline are the way of life,

Do I say these things only from a man’s perspective? Does the Law not endorse the same principles?

Tell me, you who are bent on being under the Law, do you not listen to [what] the Law [really says]?

The law

But now we have been released from the Law and its penalty, having died [through Christ] to that by which we were held captive, so that we serve [God] in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter [of the Law].

For sin will no longer be a master over you, since you are not under Law [as slaves], but under [unmerited] grace [as recipients of God’s favor and mercy].

General references

Therefore, what God has united and joined together, man must not separate [by divorce].”