Galatians 3:3 · KJV
“Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?”
— Galatians 3:3
This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if {it be} yet in vain. {so many: or, so great}
Galatians 3 — Context
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?
2This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
3Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?
4Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if {it be} yet in vain. {so many: or, so great}
5He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, {doeth he it} by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
Cross References
Galatians 5:4-8
Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.
Galatians 4:7-10
Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
Hebrews 7:16-19
Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life.
Hebrews 9:9-10
Which {was} a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;
Galatians 6:12-14
As many as desire to make a fair shew in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.
Hebrews 9:2
For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein {was} the candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which is called the sanctuary. {the sanctuary: or, holy}