Galatians 6:4
But let each man prove his own work, and then shall he have his glorying in regard of himself alone, and not of his neighbor.
ASV Byzantine Text
In The King James Version
In Context
3For if a man thinketh himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.
5For each man shall bear his own load.
Cross References
Psalms 26:2Examine me, O Jehovah, and prove me; Try my heart and my mind.
Luke 18:11The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed thus, God, I thank thee, that I am not as the rest of men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.
1 Corinthians 3:21Wherefore let no one glory in men. For all things are yours;
1 Corinthians 4:6Now these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes; that in us ye might learn not to think beyond that which is written; that no one of you be puffed up for the one against the other.
2 Corinthians 1:12For our glorying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
2 Corinthians 13:5Try your own selves, whether ye are in the faith; prove your own selves. Or know ye not as to your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you? unless indeed ye be reprobate.
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 →