Galatians 3:2

I only wish to learn this from you: did you receive the Spirit by works of the Law, or by the hearing of faith?

Literal Standard Version

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 thoughtless Galatians, who bewitched you, not to obey the truth—before whose eyes [it] was previously written [about] Jesus Christ having been crucified?

3Are you so thoughtless? Having begun in the Spirit, do you now end in the flesh?

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Cross References

Acts 2:38And Peter said to them, “Convert, and each of you be immersed on the Name of Jesus Christ, for forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit,

Acts 10:44While Peter is yet speaking these sayings, the Holy Spirit fell on all those hearing the word,

Acts 15:8and the heart-knowing God bore them testimony, having given to them the Holy Spirit, even as also to us,

Romans 1:17For the righteousness of God in it is revealed from faith to faith, according as it has been written: “And the righteous one will live by faith,”

1 Corinthians 12:7And to each has been given the manifestation of the Spirit for profit;

Galatians 3:5He, therefore, who is supplying the Spirit to you and working mighty acts among you—[is it] by works of law or by 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 →

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