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

⁸ For it is by grace^(A) you have been saved,^(B) through faith^(C)—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—

³² Remember those earlier days after you had received the light,^(A) when you endured in a great conflict full of suffering.^(B)