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Hebrew Names Version

Galatians 6:5

For each man will bear his own burden.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Judgment;   Responsibility;   Self-Examination;   Thompson Chain Reference - Personal Responsibility;   Responsibility;   Stewardship-Ownership;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Burden;   Discipline;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Galatians, Letter to the;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Burden;   Ethics;   Nicolas;   Paul the Apostle;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Burden;   Galatians Epistle to the;   Marks Stigmata;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - 25 Burden Weight;  

Encyclopedias:

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

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for October 28;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
For each person will have to carry his own load.
King James Version (1611)
For euery man shall beare his owne burthen.
King James Version
For every man shall bear his own burden.
English Standard Version
For each will have to bear his own load.
New American Standard Bible
For each one will bear his own load.
New Century Version
Each person must be responsible for himself.
Amplified Bible
For every person will have to bear [with patience] his own burden [of faults and shortcomings for which he alone is responsible].
New American Standard Bible (1995)
For each one will bear his own load.
Legacy Standard Bible
For each one will bear his own load.
Berean Standard Bible
For each one should carry his own load.
Contemporary English Version
We each must carry our own load.
Complete Jewish Bible
for each person will carry his own load.
Darby Translation
For each shall bear his own burden.
Easy-to-Read Version
You must each accept the responsibilities that are yours.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For euery man shall beare his owne burden.
George Lamsa Translation
For every man shall bear his own burden.
Good News Translation
For each of you have to carry your own load.
Lexham English Bible
For each one will carry his own burden.
Literal Translation
For each one will bear his own load.
American Standard Version
For each man shall bear his own burden.
Bible in Basic English
Because every man is responsible for his part of the work.
International Standard Version
For everyone must carry his own load.Romans 2:6; 1 Corinthians 3:8;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
For every man shall bear his own burden.
Murdock Translation
For every man must take up his own load.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For euery man shall beare his owne burthen.
English Revised Version
For each man shall bear his own burden.
World English Bible
For each man will bear his own burden.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
For every man shall bear his own burden.
Weymouth's New Testament
For every man will have to carry his own load.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For ech man schal bere his owne charge.
Update Bible Version
For each man shall bear his own load.
Webster's Bible Translation
For every man shall bear his own burden.
New English Translation
For each one will carry his own load.
New King James Version
For each one shall bear his own load.
New Living Translation
For we are each responsible for our own conduct.
New Life Bible
Everyone must do his own work.
New Revised Standard
For all must carry their own loads.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, each one, his own proper load, shall bear: -
Douay-Rheims Bible
For every one shall bear his own burden.
Revised Standard Version
For each man will have to bear his own load.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
For every man shall beare his awne burthen.
Young's Literal Translation
for each one his own burden shall bear.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For euery one shal beare his owne burthen.
Mace New Testament (1729)
for every man must be answerable for his own actions.
Simplified Cowboy Version
We all have to ride our own broncs.

Contextual Overview

1 Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren't tempted. 2 Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Messiah. 3 For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself. 4 But let each man test his own work, and then he will take pride in himself and not in his neighbor. 5 For each man will bear his own burden. 6 But let him who is taught in the word share all good things with him who teaches. 7 Don't be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that will he 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 Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don't give up. 10 So then, as we have opportunity, let us work that which is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Isaiah 3:10, Isaiah 3:11, Jeremiah 17:10, Jeremiah 32:19, Ezekiel 18:4, Matthew 16:27, Romans 2:6-9, Romans 14:10-12, 1 Corinthians 3:8, 1 Corinthians 4:5, 2 Corinthians 5:10, 2 Corinthians 5:11, Revelation 2:23, Revelation 20:12-15, Revelation 22:12

Reciprocal: Job 19:4 - mine Jeremiah 23:36 - for ye Jeremiah 31:30 - General Ezekiel 14:10 - they shall Ezekiel 18:30 - every Romans 14:12 - General Galatians 6:2 - Bear

Cross-References

Genesis 6:1
It happened, when men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them,
Genesis 6:3
The LORD said, "My spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; yet will his days be one hundred twenty years."
Genesis 6:4
The Nefilim were in the eretz in those days, and also after that, when God's sons came to men's daughters. They bore children to them: the same were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
Genesis 6:9
This is the history of the generations of Noach. Noach was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noach walked with God.
Genesis 6:19
Of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the teivah, to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female.
Genesis 6:20
Of the birds after their kind, of the cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort shall come to you, to keep them alive.
Genesis 6:21
Take with you of all food that is eaten, and gather it to you; and it will be for food for you, and for them.
Genesis 8:21
The LORD smelled the sweet savor. The LORD said in his heart, "I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again strike everything living, as I have done.
Genesis 13:13
Now the men of Sedom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against the LORD.
Deuteronomy 29:19
and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have shalom, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 bear, cheerfully attend to, and constantly and faithfully perform while in this world: or he shall give an account of his own actions, and not another's, to God, in the other world; he shall be judged according to his own works, what they are in themselves, and not by a comparison of other men's, who have been more wicked than he; which will be no rule of judgment with God, nor of any advantage to man. Every wicked man will bear his own burden; that is, the punishment of his own sins, and not another's; so the judgments of God, inflicted on men in this world, are often called

משא, "a burden"; see Isaiah 13:1 and so may the punishment of the wicked in another world, which will be grievous and intolerable. The saints will be exempt from bearing this burden, because Christ has bore it for them, even all their sins, and all the punishment due unto them; but another burden, if it may be so called, even an exceeding and eternal weight of glory, shall be bore by them; and every man shall receive his own reward, and not another's; and that according to his own works and labour, and not another's; not indeed for his works, but according to them, the nature of them, according to the grace of God, from whence his works spring, and by which they are performed. This the apostle says to take off men from dwelling upon, and censuring the actions of others, and from making use of them to set off their own, and buoy themselves up with vain hopes, because they are better than others; and also to engage them to attend strictly to their own actions, and consider them simply and absolutely as in themselves, and not as compared with other men's, since they will be accountable for their own actions, and not other men's; and will be judged according to their own works, and not in a comparative view to others.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For every man shall bear his own burden - This seems to be a kind of proverbial saying; and it means here, every man shall have his proper reward. If he is a virtuous man, he will be happy; if a vicious man, he will be miserable. If a virtuous man, he will have the source of happiness in himself; if a sinner, he must bear the proper penalty of his sin. In the great day every man shall be properly rewarded. Knowing this, we should be little anxious about the sentiments of others, and should seek to maintain a good conscience toward God and man. The design of this passage is, to prevent people from forming an improper estimate of themselves, and of the opinions of others. Let a man feel that he is soon to stand at the judgment-seat, and it will do much to keep him from an improper estimate of his own importance; let him feel that he must give an account to God, and that his great interests are to be determined by the estimate which God will affix to his character, and it will teach him that the opinion of the world is of little value. This will restrain his vanity and ambition. This will show him that the great business of life is to secure the favor of God, and to be prepared to give up his account; and there is no way so effectual of checking ambition, and subduing vanity and the love of applause, as to feel that we are soon to stand at the awesome bar of God.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Galatians 6:5. Every man shall bear his own burden. — All must answer for themselves, not for their neighbours. And every man must expect to be dealt with by the Divine Judge, as his character and conduct have been. The greater offences of another will not excuse thy smaller crimes. Every man must give account of himself to God.


 
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