Galatians 3:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³ Are you so foolish? Having started with the Spirit, are you now ending with the flesh?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ Are you so foolish and so senseless and so silly? Having begun [your new life spiritually] with the [Holy] Spirit, are you now reaching perfection [by dependence] on the flesh?

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

³ Are you so irrational? After you started with the Spirit, are you now finishing up with your own human effort?

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ Are you so foolish that, though you began with the Spirit, you would now end with the flesh?

Galatians 3:3 Cross References

Hebrews 9:2

For a tent was constructed, the first one, in which were the lampstand, the table, and the bread of the Presence; this is called the holy place.

Ezekiel 18:24

But when the righteous turn away from their righteousness and commit iniquity and do the same abominable things that the wicked do, shall they live? None of the righteous deeds that they have done shall be remembered, for the treachery of which they are guilty and the sin they have committed, they shall die.

Galatians 3:2

The only thing I want to learn from you is this: Did you receive the Spirit by doing the works of the law or by believing what you heard?

Galatians 3:4

Did you experience so much for nothing?—if it really was for nothing.