Galatians 6:5

for every one must carry his own pack load.

Montgomery New Testament

In The King James Version

For every man shall bear his own burden.

In Context

4Let each one test his own work, and he will then have something to be proud of by comparing himself with himself, and not with any one else;

6He, however, who is being taught in the message, should always share with his instructor in all the good things which he possesses.

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Cross References

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

1 Corinthians 3:8Now, though he who plants and he who waters are one, each will receive his own reward, according to his own service.

2 Corinthians 5:10For we must all be made manifest, in our true characters, before the Judgment-seat of Christ; so that each one may receive according to that which he has done in his body, whether good or evil.

Revelation 20:12And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne; and books were opened, and another book - the Book of Life - was opened; and the dead were judged according to their deeds, 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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