³ Are you so foolish? ^(A)Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by^[a] the flesh? ^4 (B)Did you suffer^[b] so many things in vain—if indeed it was in vain? ⁵ Does he who supplies the Spirit to you and ^(C)works miracles among you do so ^(D)by works of the law, or by hearing with faith— ⁶ just as ^(E)Abraham “believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”?

⁷ Know then that it is ^(F)those of faith who are ^(G)the sons of Abraham. ⁸ And the Scripture, foreseeing that ^(H)God would justify^[c] the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, ^(I)“In you shall all the nations be blessed.” ⁹ So then, those who are of faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.

³ For what does the Scripture say? ^(A)“Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.”