Bearing One Another’s Burdens
1 Brethren, even if a person is overtaken in some transgression, you, the spiritual ones, restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness, watching yourself lest you also be tempted.
2 Bear one another’s burdens, and thus you will fulfill the law of Christ.
3 For if anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
4 But let each one test his own work, and then he will have boasting in regard to himself alone, and not in regard to another.
5 For each one will bear his own load.
Doing Good to All
6 Now let the one being instructed in the word share in all good things with the one instructing.
7 Do not be deceived: God is not mocked; for whatever a person sows, this also he will reap.
8 For the one sowing to his own flesh will reap corruption from the flesh; but the one sowing to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.
9 And let us not grow weary in doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.
10 So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all, and especially to those of the household of faith.
Final Warning and Benediction
11 See with what large letters I write to you with my own hand.
12 As many as desire to make a good showing in the flesh, these compel you to be circumcised, only that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.
13 For not even those who are circumcised keep the law themselves, but they desire you to be circumcised so that they may boast in your flesh.
14 But far be it from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
15 For neither circumcision is anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.
16 And as many as walk by this rule, peace and mercy be upon them, and upon the Israel of God.
17 From now on let no one cause me troubles, for I bear on my body the marks of Jesus.
18 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers. Amen.
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