I just want to learn this from you. Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?

Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now completed in the flesh?

He therefore who supplies the Spirit to you, and works miracles among you, does he do it by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?

that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba, Father."

But as then, he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now.

For we, through the Spirit, by faith wait for the hope of righteousness.

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desires of the flesh.

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.

But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also are not tempted.

For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers. Amen.