KJV King James Version
Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?
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Galatians 3:3
Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Are you so foolish? After starting in the Spirit, are you now finishing in the flesh?
WEB World English Bible
Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now completed in the flesh?
ASV American Standard Version
Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now perfected in the flesh?
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
so thoughtless are ye! having begun in the Spirit, now in the flesh do ye end?
Surrounding context — Galatians 3
1 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?
2 This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
3 Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?
4 Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if [it be] yet in vain.
5 He 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?
6 Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.
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Galatians 5:4-8Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.Galatians 4:7-10Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.Hebrews 7:16-19Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life.Hebrews 9:9-10Which [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 6:12-14As 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 9:2For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein [was] the candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which is called the sanctuary.
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