Key Verse Spotlight
Galatians 3:2 — Meaning and Application
King James Version
“This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?”
Galatians 3:2
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
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?
This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?
Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if {it be} yet in vain. {so many: or, so great}
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