🕊️WEB · Galatians 3:4
What does Galatians 3:4 mean?
"Did you suffer so many things in vain, if it is indeed in vain?"
— Galatians 3:4 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified?
I just want to learn this from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?
Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now completed in the flesh?
Did you suffer so many things in vain, if it is indeed in vain?
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?
Even as Abraham “believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness.”
Know therefore that those who are of faith, the same are children of Abraham.
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