3 Are you so irrational? After you started with the Spirit, are you now finishing up with your own human effort?
4 Did you experience so much for nothing? I wonder if it really was for nothing.
5 So does the one providing you with the Spirit and working miracles among you do this by you doing the works of the Law or by you believing what you heard?
6 Understand that in the same way that Abraham believed God and it was credited to him as righteousness,
7 those who believe are the children of Abraham.
8 But when it saw ahead of time that God would make the Gentiles righteous on the basis of faith, scripture preached the gospel in advance to Abraham: All the Gentiles will be blessed in you.
9 Therefore, those who believe are blessed together with Abraham who believed.