Misinterpretations often arise from punctuation debates, where some render the closing doxology 'God, who is over all, [be] blessed for ever' as addressing the Father separately from Christ, diluting the verse's explicit attribution of deity to Christ; others misuse it to deny Christ's divinity by treating the phrase as non-predicative or to promote supersessionism by overlooking the context of Israel's irrevocable privileges amid Paul's grief over their unbelief.
Romans 9:5
King James Version (1769)
5 Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
Romans 9:5 underscores the profound privileges of Israel, as descendants of the patriarchs and the human lineage from which Christ came in the flesh, while ascribing to Him supreme sovereignty as the one 'over all, God blessed for ever,' powerfully affirming Christ's full divinity and eternal blessedness within Paul's discourse on God's faithfulness to His promises despite Israel's widespread unbelief.