JMNT(i)
2 This only am I intending (wanting; purposing; willing)
to learn from you people: Did you receive the Spirit (or: get the Breath-effect; take in hand the Attitude)
forth from out of works of Law, or from out of a hearing of, and which is, faith or: from the midst of faith's hearing; or: from a hearing that arises from faith; (or: out of a listening which has the qualities and characteristics of trust and confidence)?
3 Are you so senseless, unreflecting and foolish? Being folks making a beginning inwardly by spirit (or: in breath-effect; by [the] Spirit; with [the] result of [the] Breath)
are you folks now being progressively brought fully to the goal (being totally finished, perfected and brought to your destiny)
by flesh (or, as a middle: are you now continuing to accomplish completeness in yourselves in, or with, flesh)? [note: Paul is using the word “flesh” here as a figure for “works of Law” (vs.2, above), with its circumcision, animal sacrifices, etc.; for other religions it would refer to “religious works” of those particular systems (including Christianity, in the following centuries)]
4 Did you folks experience or suffer so many things randomly, for no cause or purpose – if in reality [
there]
even [
is]
"for no cause," or "by random happenings"?
5 The One, therefore, continuously furnishing and supplying to (or: for; in)
you folks the Spirit (or: the spirit; the breath; or: = attitude and vitality),
and constantly and effectively energizing, being active, working and producing abilities and powers within you people – [
is its source]
from out of works of Law, or out of a "hearing" whose source is faith, (or: The one, then, constantly supplying the Breath-effect for you folks, and repeatedly working powers among you – [does he do it] from our of deeds based on [the] Law [= Torah], or from out of faith's attentive listening,)