# Galatians 06 📖: Bear One Another's Burdens [[📚 Explore the Bible Books]] [[-Galatians Overview]] | [[Galatians 05]] | [[Ephesians 01]] > [!info] Table of Contents > [[#📜 Scripture Text (NET)]] > [[#📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary]] > [[#🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights]] > [[#🧠 Chapter Summary]] > [[#✝️ Christ in This Chapter]] > [[#🔎 Key Observations / 🛟 Life Application]] > [[#💬 Discussion Questions]] > [[#✍️ Key Verses to Remember]] > [[#🔗 Related Passages]] > [[#🙏 Devotional Reflection]] > [[#📂 Internal Notes]] ## 📜 Scripture Text (NET) (The NET Bible: New English Translation. Biblical Studies Press, 2005) #### Support One Another **Principle**: Be someone else's answer to prayer. Bring healing and goodness when you can. [[#Verse 01.]] Brothers and sisters, if a person is discovered in some sin, you who are spiritual restore such a person in a spirit of gentleness. Pay close attention to yourselves, so that you are not tempted too.  [[#Verse 02.]] Carry one another’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.  [[#Verse 03.]] For if anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.  [[#Verse 04.]] Let each one examine his own work. Then he can take pride in himself and not compare himself with someone else.  [[#Verse 05.]] For each one will carry his own load. [[#Verse 06.]] Now the one who receives instruction in the word must share all good things with the one who teaches it.  [[#Verse 07.]] Do not be deceived. God will not be made a fool. For a person will reap what he sows,  [[#Verse 08.]] because the person who sows to his own flesh will reap corruption from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.  [[#Verse 09.]] So we must not grow weary in doing good, for in due time we will reap, if we do not give up.  [[#Verse 10.]] So then, whenever we have an opportunity, let us do good to all people, and especially to those who belong to the family of faith. #### Final Instructions and Benediction **Principle**: Trust the Lord, not only in people. [[#Verse 11.]] See what big letters I make as I write to you with my own hand! [[#Verse 12.]] Those who want to make a good showing in external matters are trying to force you to be circumcised. They do so only to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Christ.  [[#Verse 13.]] For those who are circumcised do not obey the law themselves, but they want you to be circumcised so that they can boast about your flesh.  [[#Verse 14.]] But may I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.  [[#Verse 15.]] For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything; the only thing that matters is a new creation! [[#Verse 16.]] And all who will behave in accordance with this rule, peace and mercy be on them, and on the Israel of God. [[#Verse 17.]] From now on let no one cause me trouble, for I bear the marks of Jesus on my body. [[#Verse 18.]] The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers and sisters. Amen. [[# Verse 18]] The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers and sisters. Amen. ## 📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary ###### Overall. ###### Verse 01. ###### Verse 02. ###### Verse 03. ###### Verse 04. ###### Verse 05. ###### Verse 06. ###### Verse 07. ###### Verse 08. ###### Verse 09. ###### Verse 10. ###### Verse 11. ###### Verse 12. ###### Verse 13. ###### Verse 14. ###### Verse 15. ###### Verse 16. ###### Verse 17. ###### Verse 18. ## 🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights 1. "Burdens" in 6:2 and "load" in 6:5 are different Greek words. The second was often used of a pack a person carried. 2. The word "restore" (6:1) was used for mending fishing nets (Mark 1:19). 3. Paul writes, "See what big letters I make as I write to you with my own hand" (6:11), suggesting he took the pen from a scribe to write the closing himself. 4. Paul often used a scribe. Tertius names himself as the one who wrote down the letter to the Romans (Romans 16:22). 5. "Marks" (6:17) translates *stigmata*, a word used for brands placed on slaves or soldiers. 6. Paul's scars likely included wounds from being stoned at Lystra, a city in the region of Galatia (Acts 14:19). 7. "New creation" (6:15) echoes the promise of new heavens and a new earth in Isaiah 65:17. 8. Scholars debate whether "the Israel of God" (6:16) refers to the whole church or to believing Jews. 9. Unlike most of Paul's letters, Galatians ends without greetings to or from individuals. 10. The image of sowing and reaping (6:7-8) also appears in Job 4:8 and Hosea 8:7. ## 🧠 Chapter Summary > [!note] 🌱 Still growing. This section is on its way. ## ✝️ Christ in This Chapter Christ is the One whose cross is our only boast (6:14). He carried our heaviest burden, and He calls His people to love one another as He has loved us (John 13:34). ## 🔎 Key Observations / 🛟 Life Application > [!note] 🌱 Still growing. This section is on its way. ## 💬 Discussion Questions 1. How can we restore someone caught in sin with gentleness while also watching ourselves (6:1)? 2. Paul says a person reaps what he sows (6:7-8). Where do you see that principle at work in your life? 3. Paul boasts only in the cross (6:14). What do people tend to boast in instead, and why does the cross change that? ## ✍️ Key Verses to Remember - 📖 verses 1-2: Restore the one caught in sin gently, and carry one another's burdens to fulfill the law of Christ. - 📖 verses 7-9: We reap what we sow, so do not grow weary in doing good, for in due time we will reap. - 📖 verse 10: Do good to all people, especially to the family of faith. - 📖 verse 14: Paul will boast only in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. ## 🔗 Related Passages - 🔗 [[Matthew 18#Verse 15.|Matthew 18:15]] - Going to a brother who sins. - 🔗 [[Romans 15#Verse 01.|Romans 15:1]] - The strong bear with the weak. - 🔗 [[Hosea 08#Verse 07.|Hosea 8:7]] - They sow the wind and reap the whirlwind. - 🔗 [[2 Thessalonians 03#Verse 13.|2 Thessalonians 3:13]] - Do not grow weary in doing good. - 🔗 [[1 Corinthians 02#Verse 02.|1 Corinthians 2:2]] - Nothing except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. - 🔗 [[2 Corinthians 05#Verse 17.|2 Corinthians 5:17]] - A new creation in Christ. ## 🙏 Devotional Reflection 📝 SOAP: [[Galatians 06 - SOAP|Don’t. Give. Up.]] ## 📂 Internal Notes