🕊️WEB · Galatians 3:5

What does Galatians 3:5 mean?

"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 3:5 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

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

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

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

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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?

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

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Know therefore that those who are of faith, the same are children of Abraham.

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The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the Good News beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you all the nations will be blessed.”

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