For I could almost wish to be cursed and cut off from the Messiah for the benefit of my brothers, my own flesh and blood.

The ancestors are theirs, and from them, by physical descent, came the Messiah, who is God over all, praised forever. Amen.

That is, it is not the children by physical descent who are God’s children, but the children of the promise are considered to be the offspring.

For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the archangel’s voice, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.

who did not become a priest based on a legal command concerning physical descent but based on the power of an indestructible life.