Galatians 3:4 KJV

Galatians · chapter 3 · verse 4

Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain.Galatians 3:4 · King James Version

Galatians 3:4 in context

2This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

3Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?

4Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain.

5He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

6Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.

The apostle is here dealing with those who, having embraced the faith of Christ, still continued to seek for justification by the works of the law;

— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-5

sufferedpaschōto be affected or have been affected, to feel, have a sensible experience, to undergo, in…G3958 →
vaineikēinconsiderably, without purpose, without just cause, in vain, without success or effortG1500 →