Parallel Verses
NET Bible
Are you so foolish? Although you began with the Spirit, are you now trying to finish by human effort?
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?
A Conservative Version
Are ye so foolish, having begun in Spirit, are ye now made perfect by 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?
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 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? 3 Are you so foolish? Although you began with the Spirit, are you now trying to finish by human effort? 4 Have you suffered so many things for nothing? -- if indeed it was for nothing.
Cross References
Galatians 4:7-10
So you are no longer a slave but a son, and if you are a son, then you are also an heir through God.
Galatians 5:4-8
You who are trying to be declared righteous by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace!
Galatians 6:12-14
Those who want to make a good showing in external matters are trying to force you to be circumcised. They do so only to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Christ.
Hebrews 7:16-19
who has become a priest not by a legal regulation about physical descent but by the power of an indestructible life.
Hebrews 9:2
For a tent was prepared, the outer one, which contained the lampstand, the table, and the presentation of the loaves; this is called the holy place.
Hebrews 9:9-10
This was a symbol for the time then present, when gifts and sacrifices were offered that could not perfect the conscience of the worshiper.