Galatians 3:2
This one thing I would learn from you, Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law, or by hearing with faith?
Revised King James New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
3Are you so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh?
Cross References
Acts 2:38Then Peter said to them, Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Acts 10:44While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell upon all those who heard the word.
Acts 15:8And God, who knows the heart, bore them witness, giving them the Holy Spirit, even as he did to us;
Romans 1:17For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
1 Corinthians 12:7But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each man for the common good.
Galatians 3:5He who provides to you the Spirit, and works miracles among you, does he do it by the works of the law, or by hearing with 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 →