Galatians 3:2

American Standard Version (1901)

This only would I learn from you. Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

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  • Acts 2:38 : 38 And Peter [said] unto them, Repent ye, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ unto the remission of your sins; and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
  • Acts 15:8 : 8 And God, who knoweth the heart, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Spirit, even as he did unto us;
  • Acts 19:2-6 : 2 and he said unto them, Did ye receive the Holy Spirit when ye believed? And they [said] unto him, Nay, we did not so much as hear whether the Holy Spirit was [given] . 3 And he said, Into what then were ye baptized? And they said, Into John's baptism. 4 And Paul said, John baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people that they should believe on him that should come after him, that is, on Jesus. 5 And when they heard this, they were baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus. 6 And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Spirit came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.
  • Gal 3:14 : 14 that upon the Gentiles might come the blessing of Abraham in Christ Jesus; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
  • Eph 1:13-14 : 13 in whom ye also, having heard the word of the truth, the gospel of your salvation,--in whom, having also believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, 14 which is an earnest of our inheritance, unto the redemption of [God's] own possession, unto the praise of his glory.
  • Heb 2:4 : 4 God also bearing witness with them, both by signs and wonders, and by manifold powers, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to his own will.
  • Heb 6:4 : 4 For as touching those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,
  • Gal 3:5 : 5 He therefore that supplieth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, [doeth he it] by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
  • Rom 10:16-17 : 16 But they did not all hearken to the glad tidings. For Isaiah saith, Lord, who hath believed our report? 17 So belief [cometh] of hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.
  • Acts 8:15 : 15 who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Spirit:
  • Acts 10:44-47 : 44 While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Spirit fell on all them that heard the word. 45 And they of the circumcision that believed were amazed, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Spirit. 46 For they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God. Then answered Peter, 47 Can any man forbid the water, that these should not be baptized, who have received the Holy Spirit as well as we?
  • Acts 11:15-18 : 15 And as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them, even as on us at the beginning. 16 And I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, John indeed baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized in the Holy Spirit. 17 If then God gave unto them the like gift as [he did] also unto us, when we believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I, that I could withstand God? 18 And when they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then to the Gentiles also hath God granted repentance unto life.
  • Rom 1:17 : 17 For therein is revealed a righteousness of God from faith unto faith: as it is written, But the righteous shall live by faith.
  • 1 Cor 12:7-9 : 7 But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit to profit withal. 8 For to one is given through the Spirit the word of wisdom; and to another the word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit: 9 to another faith, in the same Spirit; and to another gifts of healings, in the one Spirit; 10 and to another workings of miracles; and to another prophecy; and to another discernings of spirits; to another [divers] kinds of tongues; and to another the interpretation of tongues: [ 11 but all these worketh the one and the same Spirit, dividing to each one severally even as he will. 12 For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ. 13 For in one Spirit were we all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all made to drink of one Spirit.
  • 1 Pet 1:12 : 12 To whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto you, did they minister these things, which now have been announced unto you through them that preached the gospel unto you by the Holy Spirit sent forth from heaven; which things angels desire to look into.

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    3Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now perfected in the flesh?

    4Did ye suffer so many things in vain? if it be indeed in vain.

    5He therefore that supplieth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, [doeth he it] by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

    6Even as Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned unto him for righteousness.

  • Gal 3:1
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    1O foolish Galatians, who did bewitch you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly set forth crucified?

  • Gal 2:16-17
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    16yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed on Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law: because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

    17But if, while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a minister of sin? God forbid.

  • Gal 3:14
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    14that upon the Gentiles might come the blessing of Abraham in Christ Jesus; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

  • Gal 4:21
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    21Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?

  • Gal 5:4-6
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    4Ye are severed from Christ, ye who would be justified by the law; ye are fallen away from grace.

    5For we through the Spirit by faith wait for the hope of righteousness.

    6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision; but faith working through love.

  • Rom 3:27-28
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    27Where then is the glorying? It is excluded. By what manner of law? of works? Nay: but by a law of faith.

    28We reckon therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

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    11Now that no man is justified by the law before God, is evident: for, The righteous shall live by faith;

    12and the law is not of faith; but, He that doeth them shall live in them.

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    21Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could make alive, verily righteousness would have been of the law.

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    23But before faith came, we were kept in ward under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.

    24So that the law is become our tutor [to bring us] unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

    25But now that faith is come, we are no longer under a tutor.

    26For ye are all sons of God, through faith, in Christ Jesus.

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    9and be found in him, not having a righteousness of mine own, [even] that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith:

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    18But if ye are led by the Spirit, ye are not under the law.

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    2and he said unto them, Did ye receive the Holy Spirit when ye believed? And they [said] unto him, Nay, we did not so much as hear whether the Holy Spirit was [given] .

    3And he said, Into what then were ye baptized? And they said, Into John's baptism.

  • Gal 2:19-21
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    19For I through the law died unto the law, that I might live unto God.

    20I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me: and that [life] which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, [the faith] which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

    21I do not make void the grace of God: for if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nought.

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    12For neither did I receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but [it came to me] through revelation of Jesus Christ.

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    18For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more of promise: but God hath granted it to Abraham by promise.

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    9but now that ye have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how turn ye back again to the weak and beggarly rudiments, whereunto ye desire to be in bondage over again?

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    4that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

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    12As many as desire to make a fair show in the flesh, they compel you to be circumcised; only that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.

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    8for by grace have ye been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, [it is] the gift of God;

  • Rom 10:17
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    17So belief [cometh] of hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.

  • Rom 3:20
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    20because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight; for through the law [cometh] the knowledge of sin.

  • Eph 3:2
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    2if so be that ye have heard of the dispensation of that grace of God which was given me to you-ward;

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    31Do we then make the law of none effect through faith? God forbid: nay, we establish the law.

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    6I marvel that ye are so quickly removing from him that called you in the grace of Christ unto a different gospel;

  • Rom 7:6
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    6But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that wherein we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

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    2and all the brethren that are with me, unto the churches of Galatia:

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    39and by him every one that believeth is justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.

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    2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

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    13for not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified:

  • Phil 3:3
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    3for we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God, and glory in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh:

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    9But ye are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you. But if any man hath not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

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    1For freedom did Christ set us free: stand fast therefore, and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage.

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    12But we received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is from God; that we might know the things that were freely given to us of God.

  • Gal 4:13
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    13but ye know that because of an infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you the first time: