Galatians 3:2
So tell me—did you receive the Spirit by keeping the law, or by placing your trust in what you heard?
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Acts 2:38“Repent!” Peter told them. “All of you must be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Acts 10:44While Peter was still speaking, the Holy Spirit fell on all of them who were listening to the message.
Acts 15:8God, who knows what we're thinking, has shown that he accepts them, giving them the Holy Spirit just as he did to us.
Romans 1:17For in the good news God is revealed as good and right, trustworthy from start to finish. As Scripture says, “Those who are right with God live by trusting him.”
1 Corinthians 12:7The Spirit is given to each of us and is revealed for the good of all.
Galatians 3:5Let me ask you: does God give you the Spirit and do so many miracles among you because you keep the law, or is it because you trust in what you heard?
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 →