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."