3 You began your life in Christ by the Spirit. Now are you trying to make it complete by your own power? That is foolish.
4 Were all your experiences wasted? I hope not!
5 Does God give you the Spirit and work miracles among you because you follow the law? No, he does these things because you heard the Good News and believed it.
6 The Scriptures say the same thing about Abraham: “Abraham believed God, and God accepted Abraham’s faith, and that faith made him right with God.”
7 So you should know that the true children of Abraham are those who have faith.
8 The Scriptures, telling what would happen in the future, said that God would make the non-Jewish people right through their faith. This Good News was told to Abraham beforehand, as the Scripture says: “All nations will be blessed through you.”
9 So all who believe as Abraham believed are blessed just as Abraham was.