Galatians 3:5

Galatians 3:5

3 Are you so foolish? ^aHaving begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by ^bthe flesh?

4 ^aHave you suffered so¹ many things in vain—if indeed it was in vain?

5 Therefore He who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you, does He do it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?—

6 just as Abraham ^a“believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.”

7 Therefore know that only ^athose who are of faith are sons of Abraham.

8 And ^athe Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel to Abraham beforehand, saying, ^b“In you all the nations shall be blessed.”

9 So then those who are of faith are blessed with believing Abraham.

The Law Brings a Curse

10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse; for it is written, ^a“Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law, to do them.”

11 But that no one is¹ justified by the law in the sight of God is evident, for ^a“the just shall live by faith.”

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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He . . . that ministereth—or "supplieth," God (II Corinthians 9:10). He who supplied and supplies to you the Spirit still, to the present time. These miracles do not prove grace to be in the heart (Mark 9:38-39). He speaks of these miracles as a matter of unquestioned notoriety among those addressed; an undesigned proof of their genuineness (compare 1Co. 12:1-31).

worketh miracles among you—rather, "IN you," as Galatians 2:8; Matthew 14:2; Ephesians 2:2; Philippians 2:13; at your conversion and since [ALFORD].

doeth he it by the works of the law—that is, as a consequence resulting from (so the Greek) the works of the law (compare Galatians 3:2). This cannot be because the law was then unknown to you when you received those gifts of the Spirit.

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