Carry One Another’s Burdens
1 Brothers and sisters, if someone is overtaken in any wrongdoing, you who are spiritual, restore such a person with a gentle e spirit, Z,f watching out for yourselves so that you also won’t be tempted. g 2 Carry one another’s burdens; in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ. h 3 For if anyone considers himself to be something when he is nothing, i he deceives himself. 4 Let each person examine his own work, j and then he can take pride in himself alone, and not compare himself with someone else. 5 For each person will have to carry his own load.
6 Let the one who is taught the word share k all his good things with the teacher. 7 Don’t be deceived: God is not mocked. For whatever a person sows he will also reap, 8 because the one who sows to his flesh will reap destruction from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit l will reap eternal life m from the Spirit. 9 Let us not get tired n of doing good, o for we will reap at the proper time if we don’t give up. 10 Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us work p for the good q of all, especially for those who belong to the household r of faith. s
Concluding Exhortation
11 Look at what large letters I use as I write to you in my own handwriting. 12 Those who want to make a good impression in the flesh t are the ones who would compel you to be circumcised u—but only to avoid being persecuted v for the cross w of Christ. 13 For even the circumcised don’t keep x the law themselves, and yet they want you to be circumcised in order to boast about your flesh. 14 But as for me, I will never boast about anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. The world has been crucified to me through the cross, and I to the world. 15 For A both circumcision and uncircumcision y mean nothing; what matters instead is a new creation. z 16 May peace come to all those who follow this standard, and mercy even to the Israel a of God! B
17 From now on, let no one cause me trouble, because I bear on my body the marks of Jesus. b 18 Brothers and sisters, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. c Amen.