Galatians 3:2

This only would I learn of you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

In Context

1O senseless Galatians, who hath bewitched you that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been set forth, crucified among you?

3Are you so foolish, that, whereas you began in the Spirit, you would now be made perfect by the flesh?

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Cross References

Acts 2:38But Peter said to them: Do penance, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ, for the remission of your sins: and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

Acts 10:44While Peter was yet speaking these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all them that heard the word.

Acts 15:8And God, who knoweth the hearts, gave testimony, giving unto them the Holy Ghost, as well as to us;

Romans 1:17For the justice of God is revealed therein, from faith unto faith, as it is written: The just man liveth by faith.

1 Corinthians 12:7And the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man unto profit.

Galatians 3:5He therefore who giveth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you; doth he do it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of the faith?

Matthew Henry on Galatians 3:2-6

Justification by Faith. ( a. d. 56.) 1 O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you? 2 This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? 3 Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? 4 Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain. 5 He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and… Read the whole commentary →

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