Galatians 6:5

For each one shall bear his own load.

The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)

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 shall he have ground of glorying in reference to himself alone, and not to another.

6But let him that is taught in the word share with him that teaches, in all good things.

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Cross References

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

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

2 Corinthians 5:10For we must all be made manifest before the judgment-seat of Christ; that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to the things which he did, whether good or bad.

Revelation 20:12And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne. And books were opened; and another book was opened, which is [the book] of life; and the dead were judged out of the things 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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