Galatians 3:2
This only would I learn from you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
In Context
3Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now perfected in the flesh?
Cross References
Acts 2:38And Peter said unto them, Repent ye, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ unto the remission of your sins; and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
Acts 10:44While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the word.
Acts 15:8And God, which knoweth the heart, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us;
Romans 1:17For therein is revealed a righteousness of God by faith unto faith: as it is written, But the righteous shall live by faith.
1 Corinthians 12:7But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit to profit withal.
Galatians 3:5He therefore that supplieth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the 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 →