Are you so foolish? Although you began ¹  with ²  the Spirit, are you now trying to finish ³  by human effort? ⁴ 

biblegateway Gal 3:3

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

Are you so foolish? After beginning with the Spirit, are you now going to be made complete by the flesh?

Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now trying to be made complete by the flesh?

biblegateway Gal 3:3

Are you so foolish? After beginning with the Spirit, are you now trying to attain your goal by human effort?

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

bibleoremus Gal 3:3

Are you so foolish? Having started with the Spirit, are you now ending with the flesh?

Can you really be so stupid? You started with the spiritual; do you now look to the material to make you perfect?

biblegateway Gal 3:3

Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh?

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

biblegateway Gal 3:3

Are you so foolish? Although you began ¹  with ²  the Spirit, are you now trying to finish ³  by human effort? ⁴ 

¹ tn Grk “Having begun”; the participle ἐναρξάμενοι (enarxamenoi) has been translated concessively.

² tn Or “by the Spirit.”

³ tn The verb ἐπιτελεῖσθε (epiteleisqe) has been translated as a conative present (see ExSyn 534). This is something the Galatians were attempting to do, but could not accomplish successfully.

⁴ tn Grk “in/by [the] flesh.”