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Have you suffered so many things for nothing?—if indeed it was for nothing. Does God then give[a] you the Spirit and work miracles among you by your doing the works of the law[b] or by your believing what you heard?[c]

Just as Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,[d]

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  1. Galatians 3:5 tn Or “provide.”
  2. Galatians 3:5 tn Grk “by [the] works of [the] law” (the same phrase as in v. 2).
  3. Galatians 3:5 tn Grk “by [the] hearing of faith” (the same phrase as in v. 2).
  4. Galatians 3:6 sn A quotation from Gen 15:6.

Have you experienced[a] so much in vain—if it really was in vain? So again I ask, does God give you his Spirit and work miracles(A) among you by the works of the law, or by your believing what you heard?(B) So also Abraham “believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”[b](C)

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  1. Galatians 3:4 Or suffered
  2. Galatians 3:6 Gen. 15:6