Galatians 6:5

For every man will have to carry his own load.

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

For every man shall bear his own burden.

In Context

4But let every man scrutinize his own conduct, and then he will find out, not with reference to another but with reference to himself, what he has to boast of.

6But let those who receive instruction in Christian truth share with their instructors all temporal blessings.

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Cross References

Romans 2:6To each man He will make an award corresponding to his actions;

1 Corinthians 3:8Now in aim and purpose the planter and the waterer are one; and yet each will receive his own special reward, answering to his own special work.

2 Corinthians 5:10For we must all of us appear before Christ's judgement-seat in our true characters, in order that each may then receive an award for his actions in this life, in accordance with what he has done, whether it be good or whether it be worthless.

Revelation 20:12And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing in front of the throne. And books were opened; and so was another book--namely, the Book of Life; and the dead were judged by the things recorded in the books in accordance with what their conduct had been.

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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