Galatians 6:5

for every one must bear his own load.

Twentieth Century New Testament

In The King James Version

For every man shall bear his own burden.

In Context

4Let every one test his own work, and then his cause for satisfaction will be in himself and not in a comparison of himself with his neighbour;

6He, however, who is being instructed in the Message ought always to share his blessings with the man who instructs him.

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Cross References

Romans 2:6for ‘he will give to every man what his actions deserve.’

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

2 Corinthians 5:10For at the Bar of the Christ we must all appear in our true characters, 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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