Galatians 3:3
Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?
KJV
οὕτως ἀνόητοί ἐστε; ἐναρξάμενοι πνεύματι νῦν σαρκὶ ἐπιτελεῖσθε;
Greek NT
sic stulti estis, ut cum Spiritu cœperitis, nunc carne consummemini ?
Vulgate
Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now perfected in the flesh?
ASV
Are you so foolish that, whereas you began in the Spirit, you would now be made perfect by the flesh?
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
8 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
νῦν
nun
adverb · 147×
οὕτω
outo
adverb · 208×
πνεῦμα
pneuma
noun · 379×
σάρξ
sarx
noun · 147×
ἀνόητος
anoetos
adjective · 6×
ἐνάρχομαι
enarchomai
verb · 2×
ἐπιτελέω
epiteleo
verb · 10×
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- Eph 5:15 — See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,
- Gal 3:1 — O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?
- Gal 4:7 — Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
- Gal 4:9 — But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?
- Gal 5:4 — Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.
- Gal 6:12 — As many as desire to make a fair shew in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.
- Heb 7:16 — Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life.
- Heb 9:9 — Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;
- Heb 10:32 — But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;