Galatians 3:4
2 I would like to learn just one thing from you: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law, or by hearing with faith?
3 Are you so foolish? After starting in the Spirit, are you now finishing in the flesh?
Have you suffered so much for nothing, if it really was for nothing?
5 Does God lavish His Spirit on you and work miracles among you because you practice the law, or because you hear and believe?
6 So also, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Have you suffered so much for nothing, if it really was for nothing?
- KJV
- Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain.
- WEB
- Did you suffer so many things in vain, if it is indeed in vain?
- ASV
- Did ye suffer so many things in vain? if it be indeed in vain.
- DARBY
- Have ye suffered so many things in vain, if indeed also in vain?
- BLB
- Did you⁺ suffer so much in vain, if indeed even in vain?
- ÅB
- Så meget har dere opplevd forgjeves! - om det da virkelig er forgjeves.
- OTB
- Har dere gjennomgått så mye for ingenting—hvis det da virkelig var for ingenting?
- B1930
- Så meget har I oplevd forgjeves! - om det da virkelig er forgjeves.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
2 John 1:8
Watch yourselves, so that you do not lose what we have worked for, but that you may be fully rewarded.
Read in context1 Corinthians 15:2
By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain.
Read in contextHebrews 10:32–39
Remember the early days that you were in the light. In those days, you endured a great conflict in the face of suffering.
Read in contextHebrews 6:4–6
It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit,
Read in contextEzekiel 18:24
But if a righteous man turns from his righteousness and practices iniquity, committing the same abominations as the wicked, will he live? None of the righteous acts he did will be remembered. Because of the unfaithfulness and sin he has committed, he will die.
Read in context2 Peter 2:20–22
If indeed they have escaped the corruption of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, only to be entangled and overcome by it again, their final condition is worse than it was at first.
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