Galatians 3:3
Good News Translation
How can you be so foolish! You began by God's Spirit; do you now want to finish by your own power?

New Revised Standard Version
Are you so foolish? Having started with the Spirit, are you now ending with the flesh?

Contemporary English Version
How can you be so stupid? Do you think that by yourself you can complete what God's Spirit started in you?

New American Bible
Are you so stupid? After beginning with the Spirit, are you now ending with the flesh?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Are you so foolish that, whereas you began in the Spirit, you would now be made perfect by the flesh?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Are you so foolish that, whereas you began in the Spirit, you would now be made perfect by the flesh?

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Galatians 4:7-10 Therefore, now he is not a servant, but a son. And if a son, an heir also through God. . . .

Galatians 5:4-8 You are made void of Christ, you who are justified in the law: you are fallen from grace. . . .

Galatians 6:12-14 For as many as desire to please in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised, only that they may not suffer the persecution of the cross of Christ. . . .

Hebrews 7:16-19 Who is made, not according to the law of a law of a carnal commandment, but according to the power of an indissoluble life. . . .

Hebrews 9:2,9,10 For there was a tabernacle made the first, wherein were the candlesticks and the table and the setting forth of loaves, which is called the Holy. . . .

Context
Faith and Belief
2This only would I learn of you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law or by the hearing of faith? 3Are you so foolish that, whereas you began in the Spirit, you would now be made perfect by the flesh? 4Have you suffered so great things in vain? If it be yet in vain.…
Cross References
Ezekiel 18:24
But if the just man turn himself away from his justice, and do iniquity according to all the abominations which the wicked man useth to work, shall he live? all his justices which he hath done, shall not be remembered: in the prevarication, by which he hath prevaricated, and in his sin, which he hath committed, in them he shall die.

Galatians 3:2
This only would I learn of you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law or by the hearing of faith?

Galatians 3:4
Have you suffered so great things in vain? If it be yet in vain.

Galatians 3:2
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