Galatians 6

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Help Each Other

6 Brothers, if a person is caught doing something wrong, those of you who are spiritual should restore that person gently. Watch out for yourself so that you are not tempted as well. ² Practice carrying each other’s burdens. In this way you will fulfill the law of the Messiah.^{[a] 3} For if anyone thinks he is something when he is really nothing, he is only fooling himself. ⁴ Each person must examine his own actions, and then he can boast about his own accomplishments and not about someone else. ⁵ For everyone must carry his own load.

⁶ The person who is taught the word should share all his goods with his teacher. ⁷ Stop being^[b] deceived; God is not to be ridiculed. A person harvests whatever he plants: ⁸ The person who sows through human means will harvest decay from human means, but the person who sows in the Spirit will harvest eternal life from the Spirit. ⁹ Let’s not get tired of doing what is good, for at the right time we will reap a harvest—if we do not give up. ¹⁰ So then, whenever we have the opportunity, let’s practice doing good to everyone, especially to the family of faith.

A Final Warning against Circumcision

¹¹ Look at how large these letters are because I am writing with my own hand! ¹² These people who want to impress others by their external appearance^[c] are trying to force you to be circumcised, simply to avoid being persecuted for the cross of the Messiah.^{[d] 13} Why, not even those who are circumcised obey the Law! They simply want you to be circumcised so that they can boast about your external appearance.^{[e] 14} But may I never boast about anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah,^[f] by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world! ¹⁵ For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision matters. Rather, what matters is being^[g] a new creation. ¹⁶ Now may peace be on all those who live by this principle, and may mercy be on the Israel of God. ¹⁷ Let no one make any more trouble for me, because I carry the scars of Jesus on my own body.

Final Greeting

¹⁸ May the grace of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah,^[h] be with your spirit, brothers! Amen.