Day 76 · Galatians 6:1–10 · Berean Standard Bible
Carry one another’s burdens
Helping someone can quietly turn into feeling superior to them. Paul interrupts that move: gentleness and self-examination belong together. Shared burdens do not remove personal responsibility, and responsibility does not cancel the need for help. The harvest image then gives the community a longer view. Faithful care may take time, but it should not become an excuse to overwork the people doing it.
Galatians 6:1–10
1 Brothers, if someone is caught in a trespass, you who are spiritual should restore him with a spirit of gentleness. But watch yourself, or you also may be tempted.
2 Carry one another’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.
3 If anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
4 Each one should test his own work. Then he will have reason to boast in himself alone, and not in someone else.
5 For each one should carry his own load.
6 Nevertheless, the one who receives instruction in the word must share in all good things with his instructor.
7 Do not be deceived: God is not to be mocked. Whatever a man sows, he will reap in return.
8 The one who sows to please his flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; but the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.
9 Let us not grow weary in well-doing, for in due time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
10 Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to the family of faith.