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

But now, [because you] have come to know God, or rather have come to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental spirits? Do you want to be enslaved to them all over again?

They zealously seek you, not commendably, but they want to exclude you, in order that you may seek them [zealously].

For the flesh desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh, for these are in opposition to one another, so that whatever you want, you may not do these [things].

For not even those who are circumcised observe the law themselves, but they want you to be circumcised in order that they may boast in your flesh.