² The only thing I want to learn from you is this: Did you receive the Spirit by doing the works of the law or by believing what you heard?^(A)

⁵ Well then, does God^[a] supply you with the Spirit and work miracles among you by your doing the works of the law or by your believing what you heard?

⁸ For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God—

²⁶ For if we willfully persist in sin after having received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins^(A)

³² But recall those earlier days when, after you had been enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings,^(A)