⁴ ·Were all your experiences wasted [or Have you suffered so much for nothing]? ·I hope not [or Surely it was not for nothing; ^L—if indeed for nothing]! ⁵ Does God give you the Spirit and work miracles among you ·because you follow [^Lby the works of] the law? ·No, he does these things [^L…or] ·because you heard the Good News and believed it [by your believing what you heard; v. 2].

⁶ ·The Scriptures say the same thing about Abraham [^LJust as (it says)]: “Abraham believed God, and ·God accepted Abraham’s faith, and that faith made him right with God [^Lit (Abraham’s faith) was credited to him as righteousness; Gen. 15:6; Rom. 4].”