2. I wish to know only this from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
3. Are you so foolish that, though you began with the Spirit, you would now end with the flesh?
4. Have you been suffering so much without a reason? If so, then it is in vain.
5. Therefore, does he who distributes the Spirit to you, and who works miracles among you, act by the works of the law, or by the hearing of the faith?
6. It is just as it was written: "Abraham believed God, and it was reputed to him unto justice."
7. Therefore, know that those who are of faith, these are the sons of Abraham.
8. Thus Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, foretold to Abraham: "All nations shall be blessed in you."
9. And so, those who are of faith shall be blessed with faithful Abraham.
10. For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it has been written: "Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all the things that have been written in the book of the Law, so as to do them."