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Carry One Another’s Burdens

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 But the one who receives instruction in the word must share in all good things with his instructor.⁷ Do not be deceived: God cannot 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.

Paul’s Final Warning

¹¹ See what large letters I am using to write to you with my own hand!¹² Those who want to make a good impression outwardly are trying to compel you to be circumcised. They only do this to avoid persecution for the cross of Christ.¹³ For the circumcised do not even keep the law themselves, yet they want you to be circumcised that they may boast in your flesh.¹⁴ But as for me, may I never boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which^(a) the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.¹⁵ For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything. What counts is a new creation.

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