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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Galatians 6 In this chapter the apostle exhorts to the exercise of various things, which greatly become professors of religion, such as meekness towards backsliders, love to the saints, modesty in themselves, and beneficence to others; exposes the hypocrisy and ambition of the false teachers, in order that the Galatians might...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault,.... Or "be taken before" in one; not, as Grotius thinks, before this epistle should come to them, which is a very jejune and empty sense of the words; nor before the conversion of the man, because sins before conversion do not come under the notice and cognizance of a church, or are liable to its...
Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary - Matthew Henry
This chapter chiefly consists of two parts. In the former the apostle gives us several plain and practical directions, which more especially tend to instruct Christians in their duty to one another, and to promote the communion of saints in love, ver. 1-10. In the latter he revives the main design of the epistle, which was to fortify the Galatians...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, — If he travels so slowly that his faults catch him up, and knock him down: “If a man be overtaken in a fault,” — Gal_6:1. Ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; Set his bones for him if they have been broken; put him in his proper place again. Gal_6:1. Considering...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault,— He is a slow traveler; he is not speeding swiftly on the way to heaven, so the fault overtakes him. Had he been quicker of pace, he might have outstripped it; but he is “overtaken in a fault.” What then? Turn him out of the church? Have done with him? No. “If a man be overtaken in a fault,”— Gal_6:1. Ye...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. When Christians fall into a fault, it is on account of their traveling slowly on the road to heaven. Hence the expression, “If he be overtaken with a fault.” He would not have been...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Bear ye one another’s burdens, and fulfill the law of Christ. This exposition consisted of readings from Gal_5:13-26; and Gal_6:1-2.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. Help your brethren. If you see that they have more to do than they can accomplish, take a share of their labour. If they have a heavier burden than they can bear, try to put your shoulder beneath their load, and so lighten it for them.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. Help each other. If you have a light load. take a part of somebody else’s.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For if a man think himself to be something,.... Of himself; to have anything of himself, to do anything of himself, and of himself to attain to life and salvation: when he is nothing: of himself; not even as a creature, but owes his being and preservation, and all the mercies of life, to another, even to God; has no grace nor gifts of himself, but...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. Paul does not say, “He deceiveth other people;” no, “he deceiveth himself.” As a general rule, other people find him out, they learn what he really is, but “he deceiveth himself.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. Mainly deceives himself. Other people generally find it out. It is no use estimating your fortune at so many millions, for it will not make it so; and it is of no use estimating yourself at a very high price, because it does not make it so. “He deceiveth himself.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But let every man prove his own work,.... Not concern himself about the actions and works of others; let him review his own heart and actions; let him examine, try, and prove his whole conduct in life by the rule of God's word, when he will find enough at home, without bearing hard upon, and censuring others: and then shall he have rejoicing in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another. For every man shall bear his own burden. There is, after all, a burden which we cannot carry for others, and which we cannot shift upon others. There are burdens of care, and sorrow, and trouble, which we can take from other men’s...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But let every man prove his own work, and then, shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another. For every man shall bear his own burden. There are burdens of care and sorrow which we can help others to bear; but the burdens of responsibility each man must carry for himself. The load of service for the Master must be carried...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For every man shall bear his own burden. That is, either do his own work, which God has allotted him to do, whether in a more public or private station of life; which, because it is generally troublesome to the flesh, is called a "burden", and "his own", being peculiar to himself, and in which no other is concerned; and which he should patiently...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Let him that is taught in the word,.... Instructed in the knowledge of the word, either of the essential Word, the Lord Jesus Christ, of his person, office, and grace; or rather of the written word, particularly the Gospel, which is sometimes called the word, without any additional epithet, which distinguishes it, and directs to the sense of it;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things. Those who are taught, should maintain those who are their teachers as far as they are able to do so.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things. If he gives you spirituals, do not suffer him to lack for temporals.