Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Are ye so foolish, having begun in Spirit, are ye now made perfect by flesh?
New American Standard Bible
Are you so foolish? Having begun
King James Version
Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?
Holman Bible
Are you so foolish? After beginning with the Spirit, are you now going to be made complete by the flesh?
International Standard Version
Are you so foolish? Having started out with the Spirit, are you now ending up with the flesh?
American Standard Version
Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now perfected in the flesh?
Amplified
Are you so foolish and senseless? Having begun [your new life by faith] with the Spirit, are you now being perfected and reaching spiritual maturity by the flesh [that is, by your own works and efforts to keep the Law]?
An Understandable Version
Are you so foolish [as to believe that after] having begun [your Christian lives] through [the power of] the Holy Spirit, you can [now] become complete by [living according to your human strength]?
Anderson New Testament
Are you so thoughtless? After having begun in Spirit, do you make an end in flesh?
Bible in Basic English
Are you so foolish? having made a start in the Spirit, will you now be made complete in the flesh?
Common New Testament
Are you so foolish? Having begun with the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh?
Daniel Mace New Testament
have you so little understanding, as having begun in the spiritual doctrine of the gospel, to turn again to the law?
Darby Translation
Are ye so senseless? having begun in Spirit, are ye going to be made perfect in flesh?
Godbey New Testament
Are you so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are you now made perfect in the flesh?
Goodspeed New Testament
Are you so senseless? Did you begin with the Spirit only to end now with the flesh?
John Wesley New Testament
Are ye so thoughtless? Having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?
Julia Smith Translation
Are ye so unwise? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now completed in the flesh?
King James 2000
Are you so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are you now made perfect by the flesh?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now trying to be made complete by the flesh?
Modern King James verseion
Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, do you now perfect yourself in the flesh?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Are ye so unwise, that after ye have begun in the spirit, ye would now end in the flesh?
Moffatt New Testament
Are you such fools? Did you begin with the spirit only to end now with the flesh?
Montgomery New Testament
Are you so without sense? After beginning with the Spirit, will you now end with the flesh?
NET Bible
Are you so foolish? Although you began with the Spirit, are you now trying to finish by human effort?
New Heart English Bible
Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now completed in the flesh?
Noyes New Testament
Are ye so foolish? Having begun with the Spirit, do ye now end with the flesh?
Sawyer New Testament
Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit do you now end in the flesh?
The Emphasized Bible
So thoughtless, are ye? Having made a beginning in Spirit, are ye, now, in flesh, to be made complete?
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Are ye so senseless? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect in the flesh?
Twentieth Century New Testament
Can you be so foolish? After beginning with what is spiritual, do you now end with what is external?
Webster
Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?
Weymouth New Testament
Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now going to reach perfection through what is external?
Williams New Testament
Are you so senseless? Did you begin by the Spirit, but are now approaching perfection by fleshly means?
World English Bible
Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now completed in the flesh?
Worrell New Testament
Are ye so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are ye now being made perfect in the flesh?
Worsley New Testament
Are ye so void of understanding? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?
Youngs Literal Translation
so thoughtless are ye! having begun in the Spirit, now in the flesh do ye end?
Themes
Backsliding » Is departing from the simplicity of the gospel
Topics
Interlinear
Pneuma
Epiteleo
References
Watsons
Word Count of 37 Translations in Galatians 3:3
Images Galatians 3:3
Prayers for Galatians 3:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
Justified By The Law, Or Justified By Faith?
2 I only want to learn this from you. Did ye receive the Spirit from works of law, or from a listening ear of faith? 3 Are ye so foolish, having begun in Spirit, are ye now made perfect by flesh? 4 Did ye suffer so many things in vain? If it is indeed in vain.
Cross References
Galatians 4:7-10
So that thou are no longer a bondman but a son, and if a son, then an heir through Christ.
Galatians 5:4-8
Ye were discharged from the Christ, ye who are made righteous by law. Ye have fallen from grace.
Galatians 6:12-14
As many as desire to make a good impression in flesh, these compel you to be circumcised, only so that they may not be persecuted for the cross of the Christ.
Hebrews 7:16-19
who has become, not according to a law of a carnal commandment, but according to the power of an indestructible life.
Hebrews 9:2
For a tabernacle was prepared, the first in which was also the lampstand, and the table, and the presentation of the loaves, which is called the Holy place.
Hebrews 9:9-10
Which is a figure for the present time, according to which both gifts and sacrifices are offered that are not able to make the man officiating fully perfect in respect to conscience,