^17 (A)If therefore God gave them the same gift as He gave us when we believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, ^(B)who was I that I could withstand God?”

⁸ So God, ^(A)who knows the heart, ^[a]acknowledged them by ^(B)giving them the Holy Spirit, just as He did to us, ^9 (C)and made no distinction between us and them, ^(D)purifying their hearts by faith. ¹⁰ Now therefore, why do you test God ^(E)by putting a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear? ¹¹ But ^(F)we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus ^[b]Christ we shall be saved in the same manner as they.”