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(A) He knows what is in everyone's heart. And he showed he had chosen the Gentiles, when he gave them the Holy Spirit, just as he had given his Spirit to us. God treated them in the same way that he treated us. They put their faith in him, and he made their hearts pure.

10 Now why are you trying to make God angry by placing a heavy burden on these followers? This burden was too heavy for us or our ancestors.

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God, who knows the heart,(A) showed that he accepted them by giving the Holy Spirit to them,(B) just as he did to us. He did not discriminate between us and them,(C) for he purified their hearts by faith.(D) 10 Now then, why do you try to test God(E) by putting on the necks of Gentiles a yoke(F) that neither we nor our ancestors have been able to bear?

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