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1 O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed [as] having been crucified?
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You foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified.
2 I want only to learn this from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
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I would like to learn just one thing from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by believing what you heard?
3 Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now trying to be made complete by the flesh?
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Are you so foolish? After beginning by means of the Spirit, are you now trying to finish by means of the flesh?
4 Have you suffered so many [things] for nothing--if indeed also [it was] for nothing?
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Have you experienced so much in vain—if it really was in vain?
5 Therefore does the one who gives you the Spirit and who works miracles among you [do so] by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
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So again I ask, does God give you his Spirit and work miracles among you by the works of the law, or by your believing what you heard?
6 Just as Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him for righteousness,
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So also Abraham “believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”
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