Galatians 3:5
Let 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?
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In Context
4Did you go through so much suffering for nothing? (It really wasn't for nothing was it?)
6It's just like Abraham who “trusted God, and was considered to be right.”
Cross References
Acts 14:3Paul and Barnabas stayed there a long time, speaking to them boldly in the Lord, who confirmed their message of grace through the miraculous signs that they were enabled to perform.
Acts 19:11God performed unusual miracles through Paul,
1 Corinthians 1:4I'm always thanking God for you because of the grace of God given to you in Christ Jesus.
2 Corinthians 3:8If that was so, shouldn't the new way of relating to God in the Spirit come with even greater glory?
2 Corinthians 12:12Yet the marks of an apostle were patiently demonstrated among you—signs, wonders, and powerful miracles.
Galatians 3:2So tell me—did you receive the Spirit by keeping the law, or by placing your 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 →