The Vanity of Past Christian Life in the Case of Apostasy
Galatians 3:4
Have you suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain.


Unless you continue faithful to the end, all your former Christian life must remain without the recompense God longs to bestow. Your struggles, your self-sacrifice, will all be unrewarded. The apostasy of the closing days of your life would render worthless the fidelity of all your previous years. You have done so well, that if now you do not fail you will have an abundant entrance into glory. It is not God's will that any who have suffered with Christ should miss the honour and blessedness of reigning with Him.

(R. W. Dale, LL. D.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain.

WEB: Did you suffer so many things in vain, if it is indeed in vain?




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