Galatians 3:4

Did you go through so much to no purpose? – if indeed it really was to no purpose!

Open English Bible (US)

In The King James Version

Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain.

In Context

3Can you be so foolish? After beginning with what is spiritual, do you now end with what is external?

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?

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Cross References

Hebrews 6:4For if those who were once for all brought into the light, and learned to appreciate the gift from heaven, and came to share in the Holy Spirit,

2 Peter 2:20If, after having escaped the polluting influences of the world, through knowing our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, people are again entangled in them, and give way to them, their last state has become worse than their first.

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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