Galatians 3:4

Have you suffered so many things in vain--if indeed it was in vain?

Surrounding context

3:3 Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh?

3:4 Have you suffered so many things in vain--if indeed it was in vain?

3:5 Therefore He who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you, does He do it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?--

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