Galatians 3:3

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

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?

In Context

2This only would I learn of you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

4Have you suffered so great things in vain? If it be yet in vain.

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Cross References

Galatians 4:7Therefore now he is not a servant, but a son. And if a son, an heir also through God.

Galatians 6:12For as many as desire to please in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised, only that they may not suffer the persecution of the cross of Christ.

Hebrews 9:2For there was a tabernacle made the first, wherein were the candlesticks, and the table, and the setting forth of loaves, which is called the holy.

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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