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Revised Standard Version

Galatians 6:2

Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Burden;   Commandments;   Fellowship;   Fraternity;   Kindness;   Love;   Selfishness;   Scofield Reference Index - Christ;   Law of Christ;   Thompson Chain Reference - Service;   Social Duties;   Spirit of Christ;   Sympathy;   Sympathy-Pitilessness;   Work, Religious;   Work-Workers, Religious;   The Topic Concordance - Burden;   Help;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Afflicted, Duty toward the;   Compassion and Sympathy;   Conduct, Christian;   Love to Man;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Burden;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Adultery;   Fornication;   Freedom;   Law;   Marriage;   Paul;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Burden;   Discipline;   Law;   Law of Christ;   Matthew, Theology of;   Paul the Apostle;   Sanctification;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Beneficence;   Fellowship;   Love, Brotherly;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Fellowship;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Law;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Galatians, Letter to the;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Burden;   Ethics;   Law;   Nicolas;   Paul the Apostle;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Brotherly Love;   Burden;   Christian Life;   Commandment;   Example;   Fellowship;   Galatians Epistle to the;   Law;   Liberty;   Marks Stigmata;   Paul (2);   Philanthropy;   Self- Denial;   Teaching ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - 25 Burden Weight;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Burden;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Church;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Burden;   Galatians, Epistle to the;   Love;   Pauline Theology;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for December 15;   Every Day Light - Devotion for October 28;   Today's Word from Skip Moen - Devotion for March 9;  

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
Help each other with your troubles. When you do this, you are obeying the law of Christ.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Beare ye one anothers burthe and so fulfill the lawe of Christ.
Hebrew Names Version
Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Messiah.
New American Standard Bible
Bear one another's burdens, and thereby fulfill the law of Christ.
New Century Version
By helping each other with your troubles, you truly obey the law of Christ.
Update Bible Version
Bear one another's burdens, and so you will fulfill the law of Christ.
Webster's Bible Translation
Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
English Standard Version
Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
World English Bible
Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.
Weymouth's New Testament
Always carry one another's burdens, and so obey the whole of Christ's Law.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Ech bere othere chargis, and so ye schulen fulfille the lawe of Crist.
English Revised Version
Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
Berean Standard Bible
Carry one another's burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.
Contemporary English Version
You obey the law of Christ when you offer each other a helping hand.
Amplified Bible
Carry one another's burdens and in this way you will fulfill the requirements of the law of Christ [that is, the law of Christian love].
American Standard Version
Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.
Bible in Basic English
Take on yourselves one another's troubles, and so keep the law of Christ.
Complete Jewish Bible
Bear one another's burdens — in this way you will be fulfilling the Torah's true meaning, which the Messiah upholds.
Darby Translation
Bear one another's burdens, and thus fulfil the law of the Christ.
International Standard Version
Practice carrying each other's burdens. In this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.John 13:14-15,34; 15:12; Romans 15:1; Galatians 5:13; 1 Thessalonians 5:14; James 2:8; 1 John 4:21;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
And bear the burden of one another, and so fulfil the law of the Meshiha.
Murdock Translation
And bear ye one another's burdens, that so ye may fulfill the law of the Messiah.
King James Version (1611)
Beare ye one anothers burthens, and so fulfill the Law of Christ.
New Living Translation
Share each other's burdens, and in this way obey the law of Christ.
New Life Bible
Help each other in troubles and problems. This is the kind of law Christ asks us to obey.
New Revised Standard
Bear one another's burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Beare ye one anothers burden, & so fulfill the Lawe of Christ.
George Lamsa Translation
Bear one another''s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
One another's burdens, be ye bearing, and, so, fill up the law of the Christ.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Bear ye one another’s burdens: and so you shall fulfil the law of Christ.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Beare ye one anothers burthen, and so fulfyll the lawe of Christe.
Good News Translation
Help carry one another's burdens, and in this way you will obey the law of Christ.
Christian Standard Bible®
Carry one another’s burdens; in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.
King James Version
Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.
Lexham English Bible
Carry the burdens of one another, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
Literal Translation
Bear one another's burdens, and so you will fulfill the law of Christ.
Young's Literal Translation
of one another the burdens bear ye, and so fill up the law of the Christ,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Beare ye one anothers burthe, and so shal ye fulfyll the lawe of Christ.
Mace New Testament (1729)
bear with one another's infirmities, and so fulfil the law of Christ.
New English Translation
Carry one another's burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.
New King James Version
Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
Simplified Cowboy Version
We should get off and help people up who've been bucked off hard. I mean, this is essentially everything Jesus told us to do.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Bear one another's burdens, and thereby fulfill the law of Christ.
Legacy Standard Bible
Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

Contextual Overview

1 Brethren, if a man is overtaken in any trespass, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Look to yourself, lest you too be tempted. 2 Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. 3 For if any one thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself. 4 But let each one test his own work, and then his reason to boast will be in himself alone and not in his neighbor. 5 For each man will have to bear his own load. 6 Let him who is taught the word share 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 own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption; but he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life. 9 And let us not grow weary in well-doing, for in due season we shall reap, if we do not lose heart. 10 So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all men, and especially to those who are of the household of faith.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Bear: Galatians 6:5, Galatians 5:13, Galatians 5:14, Exodus 23:5, Numbers 11:11, Numbers 11:12, Deuteronomy 1:12, Isaiah 58:6, Matthew 8:17, Matthew 11:29, Matthew 11:30, Luke 11:46, Romans 15:1, 1 Thessalonians 5:14, 1 Peter 2:24

the law: John 13:14, John 13:15, John 13:34, John 15:12, 1 Corinthians 9:21, James 2:8, 1 John 2:8-11, 1 John 4:21

Reciprocal: Genesis 14:14 - his brother Exodus 26:26 - bars of shittim wood Numbers 10:31 - instead of eyes Deuteronomy 22:4 - thou shalt surely Joshua 1:15 - Until 1 Samuel 11:4 - lifted up 2 Samuel 10:11 - General 1 Chronicles 19:12 - If the Syrians 1 Chronicles 22:13 - to fulfil Ezra 1:4 - help him Job 6:14 - To him Song of Solomon 5:8 - if ye Luke 5:7 - that they should 1 Corinthians 5:5 - that 1 Corinthians 12:26 - General 1 Corinthians 13:5 - seeketh 1 Corinthians 13:7 - Beareth 2 Corinthians 2:7 - ye 2 Corinthians 2:8 - that 2 Corinthians 11:29 - is weak Ephesians 4:2 - forbearing Philippians 2:26 - ye had Colossians 3:13 - Forbearing Hebrews 13:3 - which suffer 1 John 3:11 - that we 1 John 3:18 - let Revelation 2:3 - hast borne

Cross-References

Genesis 3:6
So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate; and she also gave some to her husband, and he ate.
Genesis 4:26
To Seth also a son was born, and he called his name Enosh. At that time men began to call upon the name of the LORD.
Genesis 6:1
When men began to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters were born to them,
Genesis 6:2
the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair; and they took to wife such of them as they chose.
Genesis 6:3
Then the LORD said, "My spirit shall not abide in man for ever, for he is flesh, but his days shall be a hundred and twenty years."
Genesis 6:4
The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men that were of old, the men of renown.
Genesis 6:6
And the LORD was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart.
Genesis 6:7
So the LORD said, "I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the ground, man and beast and creeping things and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them."
Genesis 6:8
But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD.
Genesis 6:12
And God saw the earth, and behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Bear ye one another's burdens,.... Which may be understood either of sins, which are heavy burdens to sensible sinners, to all that are partakers of the grace of God; Christ is only able to bear these burdens, so as to remove them and take them away, which he has done by his blood, sacrifice, and satisfaction; saints bear one another's, not by making satisfaction for them, which they are not able to do, nor by conniving at them, and suffering them upon them, which they should not do, but by gently reproving them, by comforting them when overpressed with guilt, by sympathizing with them in their sorrow, by praying to God for to manifest his pardoning grace to them, and by forgiving them themselves, so far as they are faults committed against them: or else the frailties and infirmities of weak saints, which are troublesome, and apt to make uneasy, are meant; and which are to be bore by the strong, by making themselves easy with them, and by accommodating themselves to their weakness, and by abridging themselves of some liberties, which otherwise might be lawfully taken by them; or afflictions may be designed, which are grievous to the flesh, and are bore by others, when they administer help and relief under them, whether in a temporal or spiritual way; and when they condole them, and sympathize with them, bear a part with them, and make others' griefs and sorrows their own:

and so fulfil the law of Christ; which is the law of love to one another, John 13:34 in opposition to the law of Moses, the judaizing Galatians were so fond of, and by which Christ's disciples may be distinguished from those of Moses, or any others. This is a law or doctrine which Christ has clearly taught, and recovered from the false glosses of the Pharisees; it is his new commandment, which he has strengthened and enforced by his own example in dying for his people, and which he, by his Spirit, inscribes upon their hearts. The Jews speak of the law of the Messiah as preferable to any other.

"The law (they say x) which a man learns in this world is vanity, in comparison of תורתו של משיח "the law of the Messiah", or Christ;''

by "fulfilling", it is meant, doing it, acting in obedience to it, and not a perfect fulfilling it, which cannot be done by sinful creatures.

x Midrash Kohelet, fol. 83. 1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Bear ye one another’s burdens - See the note at Romans 15:1. Bear with each other; help each other in the divine life. The sense is, that every man has special temptations and easily besetting sins, which constitute a heavy burden. We should aid each other in regard to these, and help one another to overcome them.

And so fulfil the law of Christ - The special law of Christ, requiring us to love one another; see the note at John 13:34. This was the distinguishing law of the Redeemer; and they could in no way better fulfil it than by aiding each other in the divine life. The law of Christ would not allow us to reproach the offender, or to taunt him, or to rejoice in his fall. We should help him to take up his load of infirmities, and sustain him by our counsels, our exhortations, and our prayers. Christians, conscious of their infirmities, have a right to the sympathy and the prayers of their brethren. They should not be cast off to a cold and heartless world; a world rejoicing over their fall, and ready to brand them as hypocrites. They should be pressed to the warm bosom of brotherly kindness; and prayer should be made to ascend without ceasing around an erring and a fallen brother. Is this the case in regard to all who bear the Christian name?

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Galatians 6:2. Bear ye one another's burdens — Have sympathy; feel for each other; and consider the case of a distressed brother as your own.

And so fulfil the law of Christ. — That law or commandment, Ye shall love one another; or that, Do unto all men as ye would they should do unto you. We should be as indulgent to the infirmities of others, as we can be consistently with truth and righteousness: our brother's infirmity may be his burden; and if we do not choose to help him to bear it, let us not reproach him because he is obliged to carry the load.


 
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