NET Bible
"Are you so foolish? Although you began with the Spirit, are you now trying to finish by human effort?"
— Galatians 3:3, NET Bible
“Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?”
“Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now perfected in the flesh? ”
“Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now completed in the flesh?”
“Are you so foolish that, whereas you began in the Spirit, you would now be made perfect by the flesh?”
“Are you so foolish? having made a start in the Spirit, will you now be made complete in the flesh?”
“Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?”
Justification by Law or by Faith? You foolish Galatians! Who has cast a spell on you? Before your eyes Jesus Christ was vividly portrayed as crucified!
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?
Are you so foolish? Although you began with the Spirit, are you now trying to finish by human effort?
Have you suffered so many things for nothing?– if indeed it was for nothing.
Does God then give you the Spirit and work miracles among you by your doing the works of the law or by your believing what you heard?
Just as Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,