Galatians 3:2
Answer me this one question. "When you received the Spirit, was it from doing what the Law commands or from believing the message heard?"
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
3Are you so without sense? After beginning with the Spirit, will you now end with the flesh?
Cross References
Acts 2:38"Repent," answered Peter, "and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ, for the remission of your sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Acts 10:44While Peter was still speaking, the Holy Spirit fell on all who were listening to the message.
Acts 15:8"And God, who knows the hearts of all, gave this testimony in their behalf, by bestowing upon them the Holy Spirit just as he did upon us;
Romans 1:17FOR IN IT IS BEING REVEALED A RIGHTEOUSNESS WHICH PROCEEDS FROM GOD, FROM FAITH UNTO FAITH; AS IT IS WRITTEN.
1 Corinthians 12:7Now to each man has been given his manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.
Galatians 3:5Does he then who supplies you with his Spirit and works miracles among you, do it because you do what the law commands of because you believe the message 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 →