Galatians 3:2

KJV1611 – Modern English

This only I would learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?

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  • Acts 2:38 : 38 Then Peter said to them, 'Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
  • Acts 15:8 : 8 And God, who knows the hearts, bore them witness, giving them the Holy Spirit, even as He did to us;
  • Acts 19:2-6 : 2 He said to them, Have you received the Holy Spirit since you believed? And they said to him, We have not even heard whether there is any Holy Spirit. 3 And he said to them, Into what then were you baptized? And they said, Into John's baptism. 4 Then said Paul, John truly baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe on him who would come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus. 5 When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. 6 And when Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them; and they spoke with tongues and prophesied.
  • Gal 3:14 : 14 That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
  • Eph 1:13-14 : 13 In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, 14 Who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory.
  • Heb 2:4 : 4 God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with various miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to His own will?
  • Heb 6:4 : 4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit,
  • Gal 3:5 : 5 He who ministers to you the Spirit and works miracles among you, does he do it by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?
  • Rom 10:16-17 : 16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed our report?" 17 So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
  • Acts 8:15 : 15 When they had come down, prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit.
  • Acts 10:44-47 : 44 While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell on all who heard the word. 45 And those of the circumcision who believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because the gift of the Holy Spirit was also poured out on the Gentiles. 46 For they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God. Then Peter answered, 47 Can anyone forbid water, that these should not be baptized who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?
  • Acts 11:15-18 : 15 And as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them, as on us at the beginning. 16 Then I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, John indeed baptized with water; but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit. 17 Since then God gave them the same gift as he did to us, who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ; who was I that I could withstand God? 18 When they heard these things, they held their peace and glorified God, saying, Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance unto life.
  • Rom 1:17 : 17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, 'The just shall live by faith.'
  • 1 Cor 12:7-9 : 7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all. 8 For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom, to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; 9 To another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the same Spirit; 10 To another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another different kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. 11 But the one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually as He wills. 12 For as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ. 13 For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and have all been made to drink into one Spirit.
  • 1 Pet 1:12 : 12 To them it was revealed that not to themselves, but to us they were ministering the things which have now been reported to you by those who have preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven—things which angels desire to look into.

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    3Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now made perfect by the flesh?

    4Have you suffered so many things in vain, if indeed it is in vain?

    5He who ministers to you the Spirit and works miracles among you, does he do it by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?

    6Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.

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    1O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you, that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ has been clearly set forth, crucified among you?

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

    17But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is Christ therefore a minister of sin? God forbid.

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    14That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

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    21Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not hear the law?

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    4Christ has become of no effect to you, whoever among you are justified by the law; you have fallen from grace.

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

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

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    27Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No, but by the law of faith.

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    11But that no one is justified by the law in the sight of God is evident, for 'The just shall live by faith.'

    12And the law is not of faith, but 'The man who does them shall live in them.'

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    21Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could have given life, then truly righteousness would have been by the law.

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    23But before faith came, we were kept under the law, confined unto the faith which would afterwards be revealed.

    24Therefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

    25But after that faith has come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.

    26For you are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

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    9And be found in him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith:

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

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    2He said to them, Have you received the Holy Spirit since you believed? And they said to him, We have not even heard whether there is any Holy Spirit.

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

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    19For I through the law died to the law, that I might live to God.

    20I have been crucified with Christ; nevertheless, I live, yet not I, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.

    21I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died in vain.

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    12For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but through the revelation of Jesus Christ.

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    18For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no longer of promise, but God gave it to Abraham by promise.

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    9But now after you have known God, or rather are known by God, how do you turn again to the weak and beggarly principles, to which you desire again to be in bondage?

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    4That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

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    12As many as desire to make a good appearance in the flesh, they compel you to be circumcised; only to avoid suffering persecution for the cross of Christ.

    13For neither do they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised, so that they may boast in your flesh.

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    8For by grace you are saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

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    17So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

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    20Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

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    2If you have heard of the stewardship of the grace of God which was given to me for you:

  • Rom 3:31
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    31Do we then make void the law through faith? Certainly not: on the contrary, we establish the law.

  • Gal 1:6
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    6I am amazed that you are so quickly turning away from him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different gospel,

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    6But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

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    2And all the brothers who are with me, to the churches of Galatia:

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    39And by him all who believe are justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.

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

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    13For it is not the hearers of the law who are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

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    3For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.

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    9But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him.

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    1Stand firm therefore in the freedom with which Christ has made us free, and do not become entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

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    12Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.

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    13You know that because of physical infirmity I preached the gospel to you at the first.