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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• 8Look to yourselves, that we may not lose what we wrought but receive full reward. (2 John 8)

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Ezek. 18:24•  (Ezek. 18:24)
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Heb. 6:4‑6• 4For [it is] impossible to renew again unto repentance those that were once enlightened
 5and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit and tasted God's good word, and powers of an age to come,
 6and have fallen away, while for themselves crucifying and making a show of the Son of God. (Heb. 6:4‑6)
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Heb. 10:32‑39• 32But call to mind the former days, in which enlightened as ye were ye endured a great fight of afflictions,
 33on this side made a spectacle in both reproaches and afflictions, and on that become companions of those so used;
 34for ye both sympathised with prisoners and accepted with joy the plunder of your goods, knowing that ye have for yourselves a better and abiding substance.
 35Cast not away therefore your confidence, the which hath great recompense.
 36For ye have need of endurance, that having done the will of God ye may receive the promise.
 37For yet a very little while: he that cometh will have come and will not delay.
 38But the just shall live by faith; and if he draw back, my soul hath no pleasure in him.
 39But we are not of drawing back unto perdition but of faith unto soul-saving. (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, but again entangled and worsted thereby, the last for them is become worse than the first.
 21For it were better for them not to have known well the way of righteousness than knowing well to have turned back from the holy commandment delivered to them.
 22[But] there hath happened to them the [saying] of the true proverb, A dog returned to his own vomit, and A sow washed into rolling in mire. (2 Peter 2:20‑22)
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2 John 8• 8Look to yourselves, that we may not lose what we wrought but receive full reward. (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?