He was greatly surprised, because the people did not have faith. Then Jesus went to the villages around there, teaching the people.

The man answered, "What a strange thing that is! You do not know where he comes from, but he cured me of my blindness!

You foolish Galatians! Who put a spell on you? Before your very eyes you had a clear description of the death of Jesus Christ on the cross!

How can you be so foolish! You began by God's Spirit; do you now want to finish by your own power?

Does God give you the Spirit and work miracles among you because you do what the Law requires or because you hear the gospel and believe it?

But now that you know God---or, I should say, now that God knows you---how is it that you want to turn back to those weak and pitiful ruling spirits? Why do you want to become their slaves all over again?

I am worried about you! Can it be that all my work for you has been for nothing?

You remember why I preached the gospel to you the first time; it was because I was sick.

You were so happy! What has happened? I myself can say that you would have taken out your own eyes, if you could, and given them to me.

Those of you who try to be put right with God by obeying the Law have cut yourselves off from Christ. You are outside God's grace.

You were doing so well! Who made you stop obeying the truth? How did he persuade you?

But they quickly forgot what he had done and acted without waiting for his advice.

The Lord said, "These people claim to worship me, but their words are meaningless, and their hearts are somewhere else. Their religion is nothing but human rules and traditions, which they have simply memorized.

And so I command the sky to shake with horror, to be amazed and astonished,

for my people have committed two sins: they have turned away from me, the spring of fresh water, and they have dug cisterns, cracked cisterns that can hold no water at all.

It was not done by God, who calls you.

For even if you have ten thousand guardians in your Christian life, you have only one father. For in your life in union with Christ Jesus I have become your father by bringing the Good News to you.

God called you to this through the Good News we preached to you; he called you to possess your share of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

He saved us and called us to be his own people, not because of what we have done, but because of his own purpose and grace. He gave us this grace by means of Christ Jesus before the beginning of time,

Instead, be holy in all that you do, just as God who called you is holy.

God's divine power has given us everything we need to live a truly religious life through our knowledge of the one who called us to share in his own glory and goodness.

No! We believe and are saved by the grace of the Lord Jesus, just as they are."

He has brought us by faith into this experience of God's grace, in which we now live. And so we boast of the hope we have of sharing God's glory!

And our Lord poured out his abundant grace on me and gave me the faith and love which are ours in union with Christ Jesus.

As for you, my son, be strong through the grace that is ours in union with Christ Jesus.

May the grace of the Lord Jesus be with everyone.

They have not known the way in which God puts people right with himself, and instead, they have tried to set up their own way; and so they did not submit themselves to God's way of putting people right.

For you gladly tolerate anyone who comes to you and preaches a different Jesus, not the one we preached; and you accept a spirit and a gospel completely different from the Spirit and the gospel you received from us!