Combined Bible Commentary
Galatians 6:5
VERSE 5. Every man shall bear his own burden.
VERSE 5. Every man shall bear his own burden.
Verse Galatians 6:5. _EVERY MAN SHALL BEAR HIS OWN BURDEN._] All must answer for _themselves_, not for their _neighbours_. And every man must expect to be dealt with by the Divine Judge, as his charac...
FOR EVERY MAN SHALL BEAR HIS OWN BURDEN - This seems to be a kind of proverbial saying; and it means here, every man shall have his proper reward. If he is a virtuous man, he will be happy; if a vicio...
CHAPTER 6 _ 1. Concerning the Restoration of a brother. (Galatians 6:1)_ 2. Concerning Reaping and Sowing. (Galatians 6:6) 3. The conclusion. (Galatians 6:11) Practical exhortations conclude t
Third safeguard. If things become bad and a Christian falls into open fault, loving Christian friends (acting as individuals rather than as a church? But, on any view, the verse is an important contri...
GALATIANS 5:13 TO GALATIANS 6:10. Practical appendix to the epistle; in the form of guarding the doctrine of free grace against antinomian abuse....
BURDEN-BEARING (Galatians 6:1-5)...
Brothers, if a man is caught out in some moral slip-up, you whose lives are dominated by the Spirit must correct such a man with the spirit of gentleness, and, as you do it, you must think about yours...
BURDEN. Greek. _phortion_. Only here and Matthew 11:30; Matthew 23:4; Luke 11:46 (Compare Galatians 6:2). This is the burden that cannot be shar
_For every man … burden_ For no man can escape from his own moral responsibility. The verse reads like a proverb. The -burden" is the -load" of accoutrements and provisions assigned to each soldier to...
25–6:6. _Life by the spirit brings unselfish care for others, e.g. for one’s teachers_ (Galatians 5:25) Life by the spirit leads to a life in right relation to others. (Galatians 5:26) We must all bew...
13–6:10. PRACTICAL. LIBERTY IS NOT LICENSE BUT SERVICE; NOT THE FLESH BUT THE SPIRIT MUST BE THE AIM OF THE BELIEVER...
ἝΚΑΣΤΟΣ ΓᾺΡ. This testing of yourselves is necessary, _for_ etc. Observe that when St Paul wrote this sentence it was not the platitude that it is now. For probably individual responsibility was not a...
ΦΟΡΤΊΟΝ (G5413) бремя, ноша. В военном деле это слово обозначало ранец солдата с вещами, которые он должен был нести (Lightfoot). ΒΑΣΤΆΣΕΙ _fut. ind. act. от_ ΒΑΣΤΆΖΩ, _см._ Galatians 6:2....
DISCOURSE: 2088 AGAINST SELF-DECEIT Galatians 6:3. _If a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejo...
SHALL HE HAVE REJOICING, &C.— _Shall he have whereof to rejoice._ The meaningof the passage is this: "Brethren, there are some among you who would bring others under the ritual observances of the _Mos...
C. DEMANDS OF FREEDOM Galatians 6:1-10 1. Mutual helpfulness and responsibilities Galatians 6:1-5 TEXT 6:1-5 (1) Brethren, even if a man be overtaken in any trespass, ye who are spiritual, restore...
For every man shall bear his own burden. Reason why a man has no ground for claiming superiority in regard to his neighbour (, end). FOR each has his own "burden" ('load') - namely, of infirmity: p...
5 There is a contrast here between a burden and a load. Burden is from the element meaning _ heavy_. Both of these elements occur together in Mat_23:4 "heavy loads". In Mat_11:30 our Lord did not say...
6:5 burden. (c-7) The words for 'burden' in vers. 2 and 5 are different; ver. 2 is the same as Matthew 20:12 ; ver. 5 as Matthew 11:30 ....
PRACTICAL EXHORTATIONS. THE APOSTLE'S GLORYING 1-5. The nature and requirements of the law of love. PARAPHRASE. '(1) If sin overcome one of your number, try to correct the fault in a temper of gentle...
BURDEN] of accountability. The word is different from that used in Galatians 6:2. 6-10. The principle of the spiritual harvest. PARAPHRASE. '(6) Share with your teachers. (7, 8) If you refuse to obey...
CHRIST HAS MADE US FREE GALATIANS _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 6 CHRISTIANS SHOULD HELP EACH OTHER V1 My Christian brothers and sisters, a *sin may overcome someone. Those among you whom the Holy Spir...
God has given gifts to everyone (1 Corinthians 12:4-7). He has given to everyone good work to do (Ephesians 2:10). Everyone will give an account to God for what he or she said (Matthew 12:36). So ever...
EVERY MAN SHALL BEAR HIS OWN BURDEN. — The word for “burden” here is different from that which had been used above, though its meaning is very much the same. The distinction would be sufficiently repr...
VI. (1-5) Be charitable to the fallen, for you, too, may fall yourselves. Sympathise with each other. Indulge in no delusions as to your own superiority. Look each to his own work, and see that that...
The best antidote for such false estimates of self is severe self-criticism. Let a man judge his own work, not by comparison with others, but by the ideal standard, then he will see what it is worth a...
CHAPTER 26 OUR BROTHER'S BURDEN AND OUR OWN. Galatians 6:1 THE division of the Chapter s at this point is almost as unfortunate as that between chaps. 4 and 5. The introductory "Brethren" is not a f...
Any conceit of our own strength or goodness is a vain delusion, for we are nothing. Let no man compare his own with others' work: this will only feed his vanity; but let each scrutinise his own work....
to Galatians 6:6. RULES OF CONDUCT DICTATED BY THE SPIRIT OF MUTUAL LOVE....
φορτίον. This word was applied to the pack usually carried by a porter or a soldier on the march. In Matthew 11:30 Christ employs this figure to describe the burden which he lays on each of his discip...
OUR OWN AND OTHERS' BURDENS Galatians 6:1 The spirit of the world gloats over sin; the Spirit of Christ leads us to restore the sinner. Our first thought should never be of revenge or contempt, or of...
Having dealt with the conduct of liberty thus broadly, the apostle now made some detailed application of the principles enunciated, giving an important illustration pertinent to the whole question of...
(4) For every man shall bear his own burden. (4) A reason why men ought to carefully watch themselves not others, because every man will be judged before God according to his own life, and not by com...
(1) В¶ 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 burd...
Galatians 1:1-24. We saw the second of Corinthians characterized by the most rapid transitions of feeling, by a deep and fervent sense of God's consolations, by a revulsion so much the more powerful i...
5._For every man shall bear his own burdens_. To destroy sloth and pride, he brings before us the judgment of God, in which every individual for himself, and without a comparison with others, will giv...
Here is the answer to those who then sought, and now seek, to bring in law for sanctification and as a guide: the strength and the rule for holiness are in the Spirit. The law does not give the Spirit...
FOR EVERY MAN SHALL BEAR HIS OWN BURDEN. That is, either do his own work, which God has allotted him to do, whether in a more public or private station of life; which, because it is generally troubles...
For every man shall bear his own burden. Ver. 5. _For every man shall bear_] Be thorough therefore in the work of self-examination. Sparing a little pains at first, doubles it in the end; as he who w...
_Bear ye one another's burdens_ Sympathize with and assist each other, in all your weaknesses, grievances, trials. The apostle alludes to the custom of travellers, who, when too heavily laden with the...
HIS OWN BURDEN; the load imposed on him by his own sins. The word in the original is different from that used in verse Galatians 6:2....
Admonition to Serve One's Neighbor in Love. A warning against self-exaltation:...
FOR EVERY MAN SHALL BEAR HIS OWN BURDEN. The apostle here carries out in greater detail the admonition at the end of the preceding chapter, not to provoke and envy one another. With appealing kindline...
CONCERN FOR THOSE WHO FAIL (vs.1-5) The Galatians may have considered themselves spiritual because they were legal-minded. There is a good test for this. What about a person overtaken in a fault? Sha...
BRETHREN, IF A MAN IS OVERTAKEN IN ANY TRESPASS, YOU WHO _ARE_ SPIRITUAL RESTORE SUCH A ONE IN A SPIRIT OF GENTLENESS, CONSIDERING YOURSELF LEST YOU ALSO BE TEMPTED. Overtaken - caught off guard; sin...
1-5 We are to bear one another's burdens. So we shall fulfil the law of Christ. This obliges to mutual forbearance and compassion towards each other, agreeably to his example. It becomes us to bear o...
That is, God will judge every man in the last day, according not to what others have done, but to what he himself hath done, 1 CORINTHIANS 3:8. Therefore every one is concerned to PROVE HIS OWN WORK;...
For each man shall bear his own burden. [Greek, phortion, burden or responsibility. Bear one another's burden of trial and suffering, those burdens which come by reason of infirmity of the flesh, and...
Galatians 6:5 For G1063 one G1538 bear G941 (G5692) own G2398 load G5413 Isaiah 3:10-1
THE NEED TO CONSTANTLY HELP EACH OTHER WITHOUT CONDESCENSION (GALATIANS 6:1). While confident in the Holy Spirit Paul does recognise that God's people will require assistance in their walk with Him. W...
‘But let each man prove his own work, and then he will have his glorying in himself alone, and not of the other. For every man shall bear his own pack.' Rather than criticising or looking with superio...
_Miscellaneous Exhortations_. The Apostle exhorts the Galatians to deal gently with a weak brother, to bear the brother's burden, to be on their guard against conceit, to be liberal to their teachers...
Galatians 6:5. FOR EACH MAN SHALL BEAR HIS OWN BURDEN. No contradiction to Galatians 6:2. Those who bear their own burden are best able to sympathize with others and to share in their burdens. Those w...
EACH SHALL BEAR HIS OWN BURDEN (το ιδιον φορτιον βαστασε). Φορτιον is old word for ship's cargo (Acts 27:10). Christ calls his φορτιον light, though he terms those of the Pharisees heavy (Matthew 23...
Galatians 6:2 , GALATIANS 6:5 I. St. Paul combines in this passage the two great ideas on which all previous morality had been based: the one self-preservation, self-development, that is to say, that...
Galatians 6:1. _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._ When Christians fal...
Galatians 6:1. _Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault,_ He is a slow traveler; he is not speeding swiftly on the way to heaven, so the fault overtakes him. Had he been quicker of pace, he might...
CONTENTS: The regenerated life as a brotherhood of believers. CHARACTERS: Holy Spirit, God, Christ, Paul. CONCLUSION: The new life in Christ Jesus is not simply one of being good, but of doing good....
Galatians 6:1. _If a man,_ a brother, _be overtaken in a fault,_ by wine, or passion, or some indiscretion, through surprise, or when off his guard. The offender is a brother, who when so overtaken co...
FOR EVERYONE. "At the Judgment, each of us will have to answer for himself!" Load = PHORTION. This can also mean that certain things (such as sickness) and the normal duties of life must be the respon...
_For every man shall bear his own burden._ HERE ARE SOME OF THE BURDENS WHICH EACH MAN MUST BEAR FOR HIMSELF ALONE 1. The burden of personality. Each individual is open to manifold influence--may be...
GALATIANS—NOTE ON GALATIANS 6:1 Paul illustrates a life of love in the Spirit. ⇐ ⇔...
CHAPTER 6 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. He exhorts the Galatians to good works, especially works of mercy towards Christians, particularly doctors and catechists. He bids them not to seek for the prais...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Galatians 6:1. OVERTAKEN IN A FAULT.—Be caught red-handed in any transgression, the result of some sudden and overpowering gust of evil impulse. RESTORE SUCH AN ONE.—T...
EXPOSITION GALATIANS 6:1 BRETHREN, IF (or, _although_)_ _A MAN BE OVERTAKEN IN A FAULT (ἀδελφοί ἐὰν καὶ προληφθῇ ἄνθρωπος ἔν τινι παραπτέματι);_ brethren_',_ if even a man hath been over...
Bretheren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such a one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted (Galatians 6:1). The Bible does seem t...
1 Corinthians 3:8; 1 Corinthians 4:5; 2 Corinthians 5:10; 2 Corinthians 5:11;...
Bear ye one another's burdens : every man shall bear his own burden. A kind of paradox of which Paul is fond. See Philippians 2:12; Philippians 2:13; 2 Corinthians 6:8-10;...
RULES FOR THE RIGHTEOUS Galatians 6:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. We have a message sent to saints. It is all in vain for the unsaved to seek to serve the Saviour. The wicked have never been called into...
For every one shall bear his own burden — ln that day shall give an account of himself to God....
Are we to bear other’s burdens or our own? PROBLEM: In Galatians 6:2, Paul exhorts us to “bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.” But only a few verses later he says “every man...