Galatians 3:2

I only wish to learn this from you, Did you receive the Spirit by works of law, or by hearing of faith?

1902 William Baxter Godbey NT

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 foolish Galatians, who has been bewitching you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was set forth having been crucified?

3Are you so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are you now made perfect in the flesh?

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Cross References

Acts 2:38And Peter said to them, Repent, and each one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ unto the remission of your sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Acts 10:44Peter yet speaking these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all those hearing the word.

Acts 15:8And God, who knows the heart, witnessed to them, giving to them the Holy Ghost, as also to us;

Romans 1:17For the righteousness of God is revealed in him from faith to faith: as has been written, But the just shall live by faith.

1 Corinthians 12:7But to each one the manifestation of the Spirit has been given unto profit.

Galatians 3:5Then did the one imparting to you the Spirit, and working miracles, among you, do it by works of law, or by 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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