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CHPATER 6Bear one another's burdens—As ye sow, so shall ye reap—Be not weary in well doing. |
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1 BRETHREN, if a man be
aovertaken in a
bfault, ye which are spiritual, crestore
such an one in the spirit of meekness; dconsidering
thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
2 Bear ye one another's aburdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. 3 For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. |
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4 But let every man aprove his own
bwork, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone,
and not in another.
5 For every man shall abear his own burden. 6 Let him that is taught in the word acommunicate unto him that teacheth in all good things. |
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7 Be not adeceived; God is not
bmocked: for whatsoever a man csoweth,
that shall he also dreap.
8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. |
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9 And let us not be aweary in well
doing: for in due season we shall breap, if we faint not.
10 As we have therefore opportunity, let us do agood unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith. 11 Ye see how large a letter I have written unto you with mine own hand. |
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12 As many as desire to make a fair shew in the flesh,
they constrain you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer
apersecution for the cross of Christ.
13 For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh. |
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14 But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.
15 For in Christ Jesus neither acircumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcisiona, but a new creature. 16 And as many as walk according to this rule, [GK: kanon]a apeace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God. |
15a in Christ Jesus neither circumcision
availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision May Jewish Christians
continued their Jewish traditions but as Paul states it the ordinance of
circumcision did not bring them any thing in the Lord. Both the circumcised
and uncircumcised were the same before Christ. But to the end that the Jewish
members persisted in their tradition of circumcision and attepted to impose
it upon others as one of the ordinances of God required of men of the church,
it became a stumbling block unto the Jews as well as the Gentiles. Just so
does the 'false traditions' do when they made their way into the Church today.
Their damage is not only unto those who adhere unto them, as they block a
portion of devotion to the truth that could other wise be spent unto it as
unto such as does not belong. But it also tends to allienate those who know it
not to be of God and have to be pressed upon to either accept, tolerate or
even be inflicted by it to various degrees.
16a rule [kanon] The Greek word used by Paul here is 'kanon' which literally meant a measuring reed or rod which determined straightness of a line or course. The correlation is that of a 'rodded' path, way or course. Or as the Book of Mormon would present it, the 'straight rod of iron' which marked the path or course to the tree of life. Its use today corresponds to the 'Canonized scriptures which gives the law, rule or authoritive standard against which one might measure of couch one's course of living correctly according to the gospel principles. This 'rod' or 'kanon' was also used to 'judge' between what was straight or crooked by a carpenter in determining the straight line of his work or materials. (see also 2 Cor. 10:13) |
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17 From henceforth let no man trouble me: for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus.
18 Brethren, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen. ¶ Unto the Galatians written from Rome. |
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