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Galatians 3

Gal. 3:4 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Have ye suffered
pascho (Greek #3958)
to experience a sensation or impression (usually painful)
KJV usage: feel, passion, suffer, vex.
Pronounce: pas'-kho
Origin: πάθω (path'-o), and πένθω (pen'-tho), used only in certain tenses for it apparently a primary verb
so βmany things
tosoutos (Greek #5118)
so vast as this, i.e. such (in quantity, amount, number of space)
KJV usage: as large, so great (long, many, much), these many.
Pronounce: tos-oo'-tos
Origin: from τόσος (so much; apparently from 3588 and 3739) and 3778 (including its variations)
in vain
eike (Greek #1500)
idly, i.e. without reason (or effect)
KJV usage: without a cause, (in) vain(-ly).
Pronounce: i-kay'
Origin: probably from 1502 (through the idea of failure)
? if
eige (Greek #1489)
if indeed, seeing that, unless, (with negative) otherwise
KJV usage: if (so be that, yet).
Pronounce: i'-gheh
Origin: from 1487 and 1065
it be yet
kai (Greek #2532)
and, also, even, so then, too, etc.; often used in connection (or composition) with other particles or small words
KJV usage: and, also, both, but, even, for, if, or, so, that, then, therefore, when, yet.
Pronounce: kahee
Origin: apparently, a primary particle, having a copulative and sometimes also a cumulative force
in vain
eike (Greek #1500)
idly, i.e. without reason (or effect)
KJV usage: without a cause, (in) vain(-ly).
Pronounce: i-kay'
Origin: probably from 1502 (through the idea of failure)
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or, great.
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2 John 8• 8See to yourselves, that we may not lose what we have wrought, but may receive full wages. (2 John 8)

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Ezek. 18:24• 24And when the righteous turneth from his righteousness and practiseth what is wrong, and doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked doeth, shall he live? None of his righteous acts which he hath done shall be remembered: in his unfaithfulness which he hath wrought, and in his sin which he hath sinned, in them shall he die. (Ezek. 18:24)
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Heb. 6:4‑6• 4For it is impossible to renew again to repentance those once enlightened, and who have tasted of the heavenly gift, and have been made partakers of the Holy Spirit,
 5and have tasted the good word of God, and the works of power of the age to come,
 6and have fallen away, crucifying for themselves as they do the Son of God, and making a show of him. (Heb. 6:4‑6)
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Heb. 10:32‑39• 32But call to mind the earlier days in which, having been enlightened, ye endured much conflict of sufferings;
 33on the one hand, when ye were made a spectacle both in reproaches and afflictions; and on the other, when ye became partakers with those who were passing through them.
 34For ye both sympathised with prisoners and accepted with joy the plunder of your goods, knowing that ye have for yourselves a better substance, and an abiding one.
 35Cast not away therefore your confidence, which has great recompense.
 36For ye have need of endurance in order that, having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise.
 37For yet a very little while he that comes will come, and will not delay.
 38But the just shall live by faith; and, if he draw back, my soul does not take pleasure in him.
 39But *we* are not drawers back to perdition, but of faith to saving the soul. (Heb. 10:32‑39)
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2 Peter 2:20‑22• 20For if after having escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, again entangled, they are subdued by these, their last state is worse than the first.
 21For it were better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.
 22But that word of the true proverb has happened to them: The dog has turned back to his own vomit; and, The washed sow to her rolling in mud. (2 Peter 2:20‑22)
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2 John 8• 8See to yourselves, that we may not lose what we have wrought, but may receive full wages. (2 John 8)
so many.
or, so great.
• They had suffered for the gospel, for the pure gospel, unadulterated with Judaism and the law: was it then all in vain? (“Galatians 3” by J.N. Darby)
• The persecution they had endured had mainly come from the Jews who, in seeking to maintain the law, had crucified Christ and resisted the Spirit. (“Galatians 3” by H. Smith)
• If these Galatian saints turned back to the law, the Jews would have no quarrel with them; the persecution had been unnecessary and would surely cease. (“Galatians 3” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Have ye suffered so many things in vain, if indeed also in vain?

W. Kelly Translation

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Suffered ye so many things in vain, if indeed in vain?