Are you so foolish? After beginning by means of the Spirit, are you now trying to finish by means of the flesh?

你们既靠圣灵入门，如今还靠肉身成全吗？你们是这样的无知吗？

你们既然以圣灵开始，如今竟要以肉身终结吗？你们是这样的无知吗？

你们既然以圣灵开始，如今竟要以肉身终结吗？你们是这样的无知吗？

你们既然靠圣灵开始了基督徒的生活，现在却想靠肉体达到纯全吗？你们就这么无知吗？

你们是这样的无知吗？你们既然靠着圣灵开始，现在还要靠着肉体成全吗？

你们是这样的无知吗？你们以圣灵开始，现在却要以肉体完成吗？

你們既靠聖靈入門，如今還靠肉身成全嗎？你們是這樣的無知嗎？

你們既然以聖靈開始，如今竟要以肉身終結嗎？你們是這樣的無知嗎？

你們既然以聖靈開始，如今竟要以肉身終結嗎？你們是這樣的無知嗎？

你們既然靠聖靈開始了基督徒的生活，現在卻想靠肉體達到純全嗎？你們就這麼無知嗎？

你們是這樣的無知嗎？你們既然靠著聖靈開始，現在還要靠著肉體成全嗎？

你們這麼無知啊？你們既以靈開始，如今倒以肉終結麼？

你們是這樣的無知嗎？你們以聖靈開始，現在卻要以肉體完成嗎？

爾若是之愚乎、始之以聖神、今成之以形軀乎、

何爾竟如此之無知耶、始則受聖神、今乃以儀文終乎、

爾始以聖神、今欲終以儀文、爾竟如此無知乎、

其以聖神始、而以形跡終乎？豈爾之冥頑不靈、一至於此乎？

Are you so foolish? You began by the Holy Spirit. Are you now trying to finish God’s work in you by your own strength?

Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh?

How foolish can you be? After starting your new lives in the Spirit, why are you now trying to become perfect by your own human effort?

Are you so foolish? After beginning by the Spirit, are you now finishing by the flesh?

Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh?

Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh?

Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now perfected in the flesh?

Are you so foolish? After beginning with the Spirit, are you now going to be made complete by the flesh?

Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?

Are you so foolish? Although you began with the Spirit, are you now trying to finish by human effort?

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

You who are trying to be justified by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.For through the Spirit we eagerly await by faith the righteousness for which we hope.For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.You were running a good race. Who cut in on you to keep you from obeying the truth?That kind of persuasion does not come from the one who calls you.

This is an illustration for the present time, indicating that the gifts and sacrifices being offered were not able to clear the conscience of the worshiper.They are only a matter of food and drink and various ceremonial washings— external regulations applying until the time of the new order.

Those who want to impress people by means of the flesh are trying to compel you to be circumcised. The only reason they do this is to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Christ.Not even those who are circumcised keep the law, yet they want you to be circumcised that they may boast about your circumcision in the flesh.May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

So you are no longer a slave, but God’s child; and since you are his child, God has made you also an heir.Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods.But now that you know God— or rather are known by God— how is it that you are turning back to those weak and miserable forces? Do you wish to be enslaved by them all over again?You are observing special days and months and seasons and years!

one who has become a priest not on the basis of a regulation as to his ancestry but on the basis of the power of an indestructible life.For it is declared:“ You are a priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek.”The former regulation is set aside because it was weak and useless( for the law made nothing perfect), and a better hope is introduced, by which we draw near to God.

A tabernacle was set up. In its first room were the lampstand and the table with its consecrated bread; this was called the Holy Place.