Galatians 3:2

World English Bible (2000)

I just want to learn this 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 Peter said to them, "Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
  • Acts 15:8 : 8 God, who knows the heart, testified about them, giving them the Holy Spirit, just like he did to us.
  • Acts 19:2-6 : 2 He said to them, "Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?" They said to him, "No, we haven't even heard that there is a Holy Spirit." 3 He said, "Into what then were you baptized?" They said, "Into John's baptism." 4 Paul said, "John indeed baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe in the one who would come after him, that is, in Jesus." 5 When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. 6 When Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they spoke with other languages and prophesied.
  • Gal 3:14 : 14 that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
  • Eph 1:13-14 : 13 in whom you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your salvation--in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, 14 who is a pledge of our inheritance, to the redemption of God's own possession, to the praise of his glory.
  • Heb 2:4 : 4 God also testifying with them, both by signs and wonders, by various works of power, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to his own will?
  • Heb 6:4 : 4 For concerning 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 who supplies the Spirit to you, 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 didn't all listen to the glad news. For Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed our report?" 17 So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
  • Acts 8:15 : 15 who, 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 those who heard the word. 45 They of the circumcision who believed were amazed, 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 speaking in other languages and magnifying God. Then Peter answered, 47 "Can any man forbid the water, that these who have received the Holy Spirit as well as we should not be baptized?"
  • Acts 11:15-18 : 15 As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them, even as on us at the beginning. 16 I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, 'John indeed baptized in water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit.' 17 If then God gave to them the same gift as us, when we believed in 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 to life!"
  • Rom 1:17 : 17 For in it is revealed God's righteousness from faith to 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 for the profit of all. 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, by the same Spirit; and to another gifts of healings, by the same Spirit; 10 and to another workings of miracles; and to another prophecy; and to another discerning of spirits; to another different kinds of languages; and to another the interpretation of languages. 11 But the one and the same Spirit works all of these, distributing to each one separately as he desires. 12 For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ. 13 For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all given to drink into one Spirit.
  • 1 Pet 1:12 : 12 To them it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to you, they ministered these things, which now have been announced to you through those who preached the Good News to you by the Holy Spirit sent out from heaven; which things angels desire to look into.

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    3 Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now completed in the flesh?

    4 Did you suffer so many things in vain, if it is indeed in vain?

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    1 Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly set forth among you as crucified?

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    16 yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.

    17 But if, while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? Certainly not!

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

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    4 You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.

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

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

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    11 Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, "The righteous will live by faith."

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    21 Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most certainly righteousness would have been of the law.

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    23 But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, confined for the faith which should afterwards be revealed.

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

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

    26 For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.

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    9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, 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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    2 He said to them, "Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?" They said to him, "No, we haven't even heard that there is a Holy Spirit."

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

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

    21 I don't make void the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!"

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

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    9 But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?

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

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

    13 For even they who receive circumcision don't keep the law themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh.

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

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

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    20 Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

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    2 if it is so that you have heard of the administration of that grace of God which was given me toward you;

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    31 Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.

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    6 I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different "good news";

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

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    39 and by him everyone who believes is justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.

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    2 For 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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    13 For it isn't the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified

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    3 For 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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    12 But 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 by God.

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    13 but you know that because of weakness of the flesh I preached the Good News to you the first time.