我只想请教你们这一点:你们领受了圣灵,是本于律法上的行为,还是本于信而听从呢? 你们是这样的无知吗?你们以圣灵开始,现在却要以肉体完成吗? 你们受了这么多的苦,都没有意义吗?会不会真的没有意义呢!

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I would like to learn just one thing from you: Did you receive the Spirit(A) by the works of the law,(B) or by believing what you heard?(C) Are you so foolish? After beginning by means of the Spirit, are you now trying to finish by means of the flesh?[a] Have you experienced[b] so much in vain—if it really was in vain?

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Footnotes

  1. Galatians 3:3 In contexts like this, the Greek word for flesh (sarx) refers to the sinful state of human beings, often presented as a power in opposition to the Spirit.
  2. Galatians 3:4 Or suffered