Galatians 3:4
Did you have such experience to no purpose - if indeed it was really to no purpose?
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain.
In Context
3Are you so without sense? After beginning with the Spirit, will you now end with the flesh?
Cross References
Hebrews 6:4For in the case of those who have been once for all enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly gift,
2 Peter 2:20For if, after having escaped the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, men are again entangled in them and overpowered, their last state is 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 →