² This only would I learn of you: Did ye receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

³ Are ye so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?

⁴ Have ye suffered so many things in vain — if it be yet in vain?

⁵ He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit and worketh miracles among you, doeth He it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

¹⁶ This I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

¹⁷ For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary the one to the other, so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

¹⁸ But if ye are led by the Spirit, ye are not under the law.