³ Are you so foolish? After beginning by means of the Spirit, are you now trying to finish by means of the flesh?^[a]

⁴ Have you experienced^[a] so much in vain—if it really was in vain?

³ Again I declare to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law.^(A)

⁴ You who are trying to be justified by the law^(A) have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.^(B)