Galatians 3:1 “O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes Jesu…”

Galatians 3:1

O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?

World English Bible

Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified?

American Standard Version

O foolish Galatians, who did bewitch you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly set forth crucified?

Geneva Bible 1599

O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the trueth, to whome Iesus Christ before was described in your sight, and among you crucified?

Darby Translation

O senseless Galatians, who has bewitched you; to whom, as before your very eyes, Jesus Christ has been portrayed, crucified [among you]?

Young's Literal Translation

O thoughtless Galatians, who did bewitch you, not to obey the truth — before whose eyes Jesus Christ was described before among you crucified?

Bible in Basic English

O foolish Galatians, by what strange powers have you been tricked, to whom it was made clear that Jesus Christ was put to death on the cross?

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Cross references

“Foolish”

Galatians 3:3 Ephesians 5:15 1 Timothy 6:4 1 Samuel 13:13 Deuteronomy 32:6 Matthew 7:26

Galatians 3:3 · BSB

Are you so foolish? After starting in the Spirit, are you now finishing in the flesh?

Ephesians 5:15 · BSB

Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk, not as unwise but as wise,

1 Timothy 6:4 · BSB

he is conceited and understands nothing. Instead, he has an unhealthy interest in controversies and disputes about words, out of which come envy, strife, abusive talk, evil suspicions,

1 Samuel 13:13 · BSB

“You have acted foolishly,” Samuel declared. “You have not kept the command that the LORD your God gave you; if you had, the LORD would have established your kingdom over Israel for all time.

Deuteronomy 32:6 · BSB

Is this how you repay the LORD, O foolish and senseless people? Is He not your Father and Creator? Has He not made you and established you?

Matthew 7:26 · BSB

But everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not act on them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.

“who”

2 Corinthians 11:3 Galatians 1:6 Revelation 2:20 Galatians 4:9 Ephesians 4:14 2 Peter 2:18

2 Corinthians 11:3 · BSB

I am afraid, however, that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may be led astray from your simple and pure devotion to Christ.

Galatians 1:6 · BSB

I am amazed how quickly you are deserting the One who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel—

Revelation 2:20 · BSB

But I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching she misleads My servants to be sexually immoral and to eat food sacrificed to idols.

Galatians 4:9 · BSB

But now that you know God, or rather are known by God, how is it that you are turning back to those weak and worthless principles? Do you wish to be enslaved by them all over again?

Ephesians 4:14 · BSB

Then we will no longer be infants, tossed about by the waves and carried around by every wind of teaching and by the clever cunning of men in their deceitful scheming.

2 Peter 2:18 · BSB

With lofty but empty words, they appeal to the sensual passions of the flesh and entice those who are just escaping from others who live in error.

“ye”

Hebrews 11:8 1 Peter 4:17 1 Peter 1:22 Hebrews 5:9 Galatians 2:14 Acts 6:7

Hebrews 11:8 · BSB

By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, without knowing where he was going.

1 Peter 4:17 · BSB

For it is time for judgment to begin with the family of God; and if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who disobey the gospel of God?

1 Peter 1:22 · BSB

Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have a genuine love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from a pure heart.

Hebrews 5:9 · BSB

And having been made perfect, He became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey Him

Galatians 2:14 · BSB

When I saw that they were not walking in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all, “If you, who are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you compel the Gentiles to live l…

Acts 6:7 · BSB

So the word of God continued to spread. The number of disciples in Jerusalem grew rapidly, and a great number of priests became obedient to the faith.

“Jesus Christ”

1 Corinthians 2:2 1 Corinthians 11:26 Ephesians 3:8 1 Corinthians 1:23 1 Corinthians 1:24

1 Corinthians 2:2 · BSB

For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.

1 Corinthians 11:26 · BSB

For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until He comes.

Ephesians 3:8 · BSB

Though I am less than the least of all the saints, this grace was given me: to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

1 Corinthians 1:23 · BSB

but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles,

1 Corinthians 1:24 · BSB

but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

2I would like to learn just one thing from you: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law, or by hearing with faith?

Read Galatians 3