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Galatians 3:4 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Did you suffer so many things in vain, if it is indeed in vain? "

Galatians 3:4

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2 I just want to learn this from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?

3 Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now completed in the flesh?

4 Did you suffer so many things in vain, if it is indeed in vain?

5 He therefore who supplies the Spirit to you and does miracles among you, does he do it by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?

6 Even so, Abraham “believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness.”

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Galatians 3:1

"Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified?"

Galatians 3:2

"I just want to learn this from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?"

Galatians 3:3

"Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now completed in the flesh?"

Galatians 3:5

"He therefore who supplies the Spirit to you and does miracles among you, does he do it by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?"

Galatians 3:6

"Even so, Abraham “believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness.”"

Galatians 3:7

"Know therefore that those who are of faith are children of Abraham."

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