Galatians 3:4
And have ye borne all these things in vain? And I would, it were in vain!
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain.
In Context
3Are ye so foolish, that having begun in the Spirit, ye now would consummate in the flesh?
Cross References
Hebrews 6:4But they who have once descended to baptism, and have tasted the gift from heaven, and have received the Holy Spirit,
2 Peter 2:20For if, when they have escaped the pollutions of the world by the knowledge of our Lord and Redeemer Jesus the Messiah, they become again involved in the same, and are vanquished, their latter state is worse than the former.
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 →