Galatians 3:3 Cross References - Common

³ Are you so foolish? Having begun with the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh?

⁷ So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir through God. ⁸ Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those which by nature are no gods. ⁹ But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how is it that you turn back again to the weak and worthless elemental things? Do you desire to be enslaved all over again? ¹⁰ You observe days and months and seasons and years!

⁴ You have been severed from Christ, you who are seeking to be justified by law; you have fallen away from grace. ⁵ For through the Spirit, by faith, we wait for the hope of righteousness. ⁶ For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision is of any avail, but faith working through love. ⁷ You were running well; who hindered you from obeying the truth? ⁸ This persuasion did not come from him who calls you.

¹² Those who want to make a good showing in the flesh try to compel you to be circumcised, and only in order that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ. ¹³ For those who are circumcised do not even keep the Law themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised so that they may boast in your flesh. ¹⁴ But may it never be that I would boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

¹⁶ who has become a priest not on the basis of a law of carnal requirement, but according to the power of an indestructible life. ¹⁷ For it is declared of him, "You are a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek." ¹⁸ On the one hand, a former commandment is set aside because of its weakness and uselessness ¹⁹ (for the law made nothing perfect); and on the other hand, a better hope is introduced, through which we draw near to God.

² For there was a tabernacle prepared, the first one, in which were the lampstand and the table and the sacred bread; this is called the holy place.

⁹ This is symbolic for the present time. According to this arrangement, gifts and sacrifices are offered which cannot perfect the conscience of the worshiper, ¹⁰ since they relate only to food and drink and various washings regulations for the flesh imposed until the time of reformation.