Galatians 6:5

for each one shall bear his own burden.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

For every man shall bear his own burden.

In Context

4but let each one prove his own work, and then he will have cause to boast with respect to himself only, and not with respect to another:

6Let him that is instructed in the word share with his instructor in all good things.

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Cross References

Romans 2:6who will render to every man according to his works;

1 Corinthians 3:8But he that plants and he that waters are one; and each one shall receive his own reward, according to his own labor.

2 Corinthians 5:10For we must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ, that each may receive his reward for the things done in his body, according to what he has done, whether good or evil.

Revelation 20:12And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before the throne; and the books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of the things that were written in the books, according to their works.

Matthew Henry on Galatians 6:2-11

Tenderness in Reproving; Self-Examination; Spiritual Mindedness and Beneficence. ( a. d. 56.) 1 Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. 2 Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. 3 For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. 4 But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in… Read the whole commentary →

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