Galatians 3:3

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 

Galatians 5:16

5:16 But I say, live ⁵  by the Spirit and you will not carry out the desires of the flesh. ⁶ 

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.”

⁵ tn Grk “walk” (a common NT idiom for how one conducts one’s life or how one behaves).

⁶ tn On the term “flesh” (once in this verse and twice in v. 17) see the note on the same word in Gal 5:13.