Galatians 6:5

for everyone must bear their own load.

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For every man shall bear his own burden.

In Context

4Let everyone test their own work, and then their cause for satisfaction will be in themselves and not in a comparison with their neighbor;

6The person, however, who is being instructed in the message ought always to share their blessings with their teacher.

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Cross References

Romans 2:6for he will give to everyone what their actions deserve.

1 Corinthians 3:8In this the person who plants and the person who waters are one; yet each will receive their own reward in proportion to their own labor.

2 Corinthians 5:10For at the court of the Christ we must all appear in our true characters, so that each may reap the results of the life which he has lived in the body, in accordance with his actions – whether good or worthless.

Revelation 20:12And I saw the dead, high and low, standing before the throne; and books were opened. Then another book was opened, the book of life; and the dead were judged, according to their actions, by what was written in the books.

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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