Galatians 3:2
Here is the one thing that I want to find out from you – Did you receive the Spirit as the result of obedience to Law, or of your having listened with faith?
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In Context
3Can you be so foolish? After beginning with what is spiritual, do you now end with what is external?
Cross References
Acts 2:38“Repent,” answered Peter, “and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and then you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Acts 10:44Before Peter had finished saying these words, the Holy Spirit fell on all who were listening to the message.
Acts 15:8Now God, who reads all hearts, declared his acceptance of the Gentiles, by giving them the Holy Spirit, just as he did to us.
Romans 1:17For in it there is a revelation of the divine righteousness resulting from faith and leading on to faith; as scripture says – ‘Through faith the righteous will find life.’
1 Corinthians 12:7To each of us there is given spiritual illumination for the general good.
Galatians 3:5He who supplies you abundantly with his Spirit and endows you with such powers – does he do this as the result of obedience to Law? Or as the result of your having listened with 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 →