3. Are you so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are you now made perfect by the flesh?
4. Have you suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain.
5. He therefore that ministers to you the Spirit, and works miracles among you, does he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
6. Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.
7. Know you therefore that they who are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.
8. And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying,
9. So then they who are of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.
10. For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continues not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
11. But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for,
12. And the law is not of faith: but,
13. Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangs on a tree:
14. That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
15. Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though it be but a man's covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannuls, or adds thereto.
16. Now to Abraham and his descendant were the promises made. He says not, And to descendants, as of many; but as of one,
17. And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before by God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of no effect.