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Galatians 3:4

Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain.

KJV

τοσαῦτα ἐπάθετε εἰκῇ; εἴγε καὶ εἰκῇ.

Greek NT

tanta passi estis sine causa ? si tamen sine causa.

Vulgate

Did ye suffer so many things in vain? if it be indeed in vain.

ASV

Have you suffered so great things in vain? If it be yet in vain.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

5 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

εἰκῆ
eike
adverb · 6×
εἴγε
eige
conditional · 5×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
πάσχω
pascho
verb · 41×
τοσοῦτος
tosoutos
demonstrative · 20×

Historic Christian voices

6 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Source. Translated by J. Walker, J. Sheppard and H. Browne, and revised by George B. Stevens. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 11. Edited by Philip Schaff. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1889.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/210213.htm>. Contact information. The editor of New Adven…
1. The blessed Paul wishes to show in the next place that this covenant is far better than the old. This then he does by first laying down remote considerations. For inasmuch as there was nothing bodily or that made a show, no temple for instance, nor Holy of Holies, nor Priest with so great apparel, no legal observances, but all things higher and more perfect, and there was no…
1. Let us hear the oracles of God with fear, with fear and much trembling. For (it is said) Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice unto Him with trembling. Psalm 2:11 But if even our joy and our exultation ought to be with trembling, of what punishment are we not worthy, if we listen not with terror to what is said, when the things spoken, as now, are themselves fearful? For hav…

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 15:2 — By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
  • 1Cor 15:2 — By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
  • 2Cor 6:1 — We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.
  • 2John 1:8 — Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.
  • 2John 1:8 — Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.
  • 2Pet 2:20 — For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them
  • Ezek 18:24 — But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he
  • Ezek 18:24 — But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he
  • Heb 6:4 — For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,
  • Heb 10:32 — But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;
  • Jas 1:26 — If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.
  • Luke 8:13 — They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.