¹⁷ So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

³ Are you so foolish? ^(A)Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by ^(B)the flesh? ^4 (C)Have you suffered so ^[a]many things in vain—if indeed it was in vain?

¹⁷ Now ^(A)the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is ^(B)liberty.

² This only I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, ^(A)or by the hearing of faith?

⁵ Therefore He who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you, does He do it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?—