• Bear and Share the Burdens

  • 1 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.
  • 2 Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
  • 3 For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
  • 4 But let each one examine his own work, and then he will have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.
  • 5 For each one shall bear his own load.

  • Be Generous and Do Good

  • 6 Let him who is taught the word share in all good things with him who teaches.
  • 7 Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.
  • 8 For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life.
  • 9 And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.
  • 10 Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all, especially to those who are of the household of faith.

  • Glory Only in the Cross

  • 11 See with what large letters I have written to you with my own hand!
  • 12 As many as desire to make a good showing in the flesh, these would compel you to be circumcised, only that they may not suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.
  • 13 For not even those who are circumcised keep the law, but they desire to have you circumcised that they may boast in your flesh.
  • 14 But God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
  • 15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but a new creation.

  • Blessing and a Plea

  • 16 And as many as walk according to this rule, peace and mercy be upon them, and upon the Israel of God.
  • 17 From now on let no one trouble me, for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus.
  • 18 Brethren, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.