Galatians 6:5

For every man shall bear his own burden.

Reason why a man has no ground for claiming superiority in regard to his neighbour (, end). FOR each has his own "burden" ('load') - namely, of infirmity: phortion is different from bare, . This verse does not contradict . There he tells them to bear with others' "burdens" in forbearing sympathy; here, that self examination will make a man to feel he has enough to do to render an account for 'his own load' of sin, without comparing himself boastfully with his neighbour (cf. ). Instead of 'thinking himself to be something,' he shall feel his own 'load' of sin: this will lead him to bear sympathetically with his neighbour's weights of infirmity. AEsop says a man carries two bags over his shoulder; the one with his own sins hanging behind, that with his neighbour's sins in front.