Galatians 3:4
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?
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.
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
Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.
Read in context1 Corinthians 15:2
By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
Read in contextHebrews 10:32–39
But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;
Read in contextHebrews 6:4–6
For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,
Read in contextEzekiel 18:24
But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.
Read in context2 Peter 2:20–22
For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
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