Galatians 3:2
This only I desire to learn from you: Was it from works of law that ye received the Spirit, or from the hearing of faith?
The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)
In The King James Version
In Context
3Are ye so foolish? Having begun with the Spirit, are ye now being made perfect[3:3] with the flesh?
Cross References
Acts 2:38And Peter said to them: Repent, and be each of you immersed, upon the name of Jesus Christ, unto remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Acts 10:44While Peter was yet speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell on all who heard the word.
Acts 15:8And God who knows the heart bore them witness, giving to them the Holy Spirit, as also to us;
Romans 1:17For therein is revealed a righteousness of God, from faith to faith; as it is written: The just shall live by faith.
1 Corinthians 12:7But to each is given the manifestation of the Spirit, for profiting.
Galatians 3:5Does he, therefore, who supplies to you the Spirit, and works miracles among you[3:5], do it from works of law, or from the hearing of 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 →