2. this only do I wish to learn from you--by works of law the Spirit did ye receive, or by the hearing of faith?
3. so thoughtless are ye! having begun in the Spirit, now in the flesh do ye end?
4. so many things did ye suffer in vain! if, indeed, even in vain.
5. He, therefore, who is supplying to you the Spirit, and working mighty acts among you--by works of law or by the hearing of faith [is it]?
6. according as Abraham did believe God, and it was reckoned to him--to righteousness;
7. know ye, then, that those of faith--these are sons of Abraham,
8. and the Writing having foreseen that by faith God doth declare righteous the nations did proclaim before the good news to Abraham--
9. `Blessed in thee shall be all the nations;' so that those of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham,
10. for as many as are of works of law are under a curse, for it hath been written, `Cursed [is] every one who is not remaining in all things that have been written in the Book of the Law--to do them,'
11. and that in law no one is declared righteous with God, is evident, because `The righteous by faith shall live;'
12. and the law is not by faith, but--`The man who did them shall live in them.'
13. Christ did redeem us from the curse of the law, having become for us a curse, for it hath been written, `Cursed is every one who is hanging on a tree,'
14. that to the nations the blessing of Abraham may come in Christ Jesus, that the promise of the Spirit we may receive through the faith.
15. Brethren, as a man I say [it], even of man a confirmed covenant no one doth make void or doth add to,
16. and to Abraham were the promises spoken, and to his seed; He doth not say, `And to seeds,' as of many, but as of one, `And to thy seed,' which is Christ;
17. and this I say, A covenant confirmed before by God to Christ, the law, that came four hundred and thirty years after, doth not set aside, to make void the promise,