Faith or Works of the Law

You foolish(A) Galatians!(B) Who has bewitched you?(C) Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified.(D) I would like to learn just one thing from you: Did you receive the Spirit(E) by the works of the law,(F) or by believing what you heard?(G) Are you so foolish? After beginning by means of the Spirit, are you now trying to finish by means of the flesh?[a]

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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.

24 So the law was our guardian until Christ came(A) that we might be justified by faith.(B) 25 Now that this faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian.(C)

26 So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God(D) through faith, 27 for all of you who were baptized into Christ(E) have clothed yourselves with Christ.(F)

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