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

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

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

You who are trying to be declared righteous by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace!For through the Spirit, by faith, we wait expectantly for the hope of righteousness.For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision carries any weight– the only thing that matters is faith working through love.You were running well; who prevented you from obeying the truth?This persuasion does not come from the one who calls you!

This was a symbol for the time then present, when gifts and sacrifices were offered that could not perfect the conscience of the worshiper.They served only for matters of food and drink and various washings; they are external regulations imposed until the new order came.

Those who want to make a good showing in external matters are trying to force you to be circumcised. They do so only to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Christ.For those who are circumcised do not obey the law themselves, but they want you to be circumcised so that they can boast about your flesh.But 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 a son, and if you are a son, then you are also an heir through God.Formerly when you did not know God, you were enslaved to beings that by nature are not gods at all.But now that you have come to know God( or rather to be known by God), how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless basic forces? Do you want to be enslaved to them all over again?You are observing religious days and months and seasons and years.

who has become a priest not by a legal regulation about physical descent but by the power of an indestructible life.For here is the testimony about him:“ You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”On the one hand a former command is set aside because it is weak and useless,for the law made nothing perfect. On the other hand a better hope is introduced, through which we draw near to God.

For a tent was prepared, the outer one, which contained the lampstand, the table, and the presentation of the loaves; this is called the Holy Place.