Galatians 6:5

For each man will bear his own burden.

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In The King James Version

For every man shall bear his own burden.

In Context

4But let each man examine his own work, and then he will have reason to boast in himself, and not in someone else.

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

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Cross References

Jeremiah 17:10“I, the LORD, search the mind. I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”

Ezekiel 18:4Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine. The soul who sins, he shall die.

Romans 2:6who “will pay back to everyone according to their works:”

1 Corinthians 3:8Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

2 Corinthians 5:10For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ that each one may receive the things in the body according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

Revelation 20:12I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and they opened books. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged out of the things which 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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