In the End We must Face Up to the Consequences of our Behaviour (Galatians 6:7).
Paul warns us all to remember that in the end we will have to give account for our behaviour. Walking with Christ is not a soft option that we can take or leave as we wish. It is the very evidence that we are truly His. For the test of the good seed is that it produces a hundredfold.
Verse 7. _BE NOT DECEIVED_] Neither deceive yourselves, nor permit yourselves to be deceived by others. He seems to refer to the Judaizing teachers. _GOD IS NOT MOCKED_] Ye cannot deceive him, and he...
BE NOT DECEIVED - That is, in regard to your character, and your hopes for eternity. This is a formula of introduction to some admonition that is especially weighty and important. It implies that ther...
CHAPTER 6 _ 1. Concerning the Restoration of a brother. (Galatians 6:1)_ 2. Concerning Reaping and Sowing. (Galatians 6:6) 3. The conclusion. (Galatians 6:11) Practical exhortations conclude t
GALATIANS 5:13 TO GALATIANS 6:10. Practical appendix to the epistle; in the form of guarding the doctrine of free grace against antinomian abuse....
Last safeguard: the natural law of God's universe stands. Those who propose to make the gospel of grace an excuse for laxity think they can laugh in their sleeves at the Creator, but You-' ve gut to g...
He who is being instructed in the word must share in all good things with him who is giving instruction. Don't deceive yourselves; no one can make a fool of God; whatever a man sows this he will also...
BURDEN-BEARING (Galatians 6:1-5)...
NOT. Greek. _me_. App-105. DECEIVED. Greek. _planao_, App-128. GOD. App-98. MOCKED. Greek. _mukterizomai_. Only here, It means to turn up the nose at. Compare Luke 10:14 with Luke 23:35, where the...
Men who, like Ananias and Sapphira, seek to obtain credit for liberality, while keeping back that which is due to the Church and cause of God, may impose on their fellow-men, and may fancy that they c...
These verses, which are an exhortation to the exercise of liberality towards the Teachers of the Church, do not seem to have any obvious connexion with what has gone before. They _may_have been sugges...
13–6:10. PRACTICAL. LIBERTY IS NOT LICENSE BUT SERVICE; NOT THE FLESH BUT THE SPIRIT MUST BE THE AIM OF THE BELIEVER...
7. The connexion is: If you spare yourselves and do not help others, e.g. your teachers as I have just said, you are living for the flesh, not the spirit, however much you deceive yourselves (Galatian...
7–10. _Show such kindness, for the Harvest will come_ (Galatians 6:7) Refusal to help others is, in reality, mocking God, who does avenge every insult, and bring the harvest of each man’s sowing. (Gal...
ΠΛΑΝΆΣΘΕ _praes. imper. pass. от_ ΠΛΑΝΆΩ (G4105) обманывать, сбивать с толку, ΜΥΚΤΗΡΊΖΕΤΑΙ _praes. ind. pass. от_ ΜΥΚΤΗΡΊΖΩ (G3456) задирать нос, относиться с презрением, высмеивать. Имеется в виду п...
DISCOURSE: 2089 THE GROUND OF GOD’S FINAL DECISION Galatians 6:7. _Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of t...
BE NOT DECEIVED;— The Apostle here, with great propriety and force, exposes the evasions that some would make use of to excuse themselves from acts of liberality; by which, however they might impose o...
2. MATERIAL SUPPORT FOR THE GOSPEL 6:6-10 TEXT 6:6-8 (6) But let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things. (7) Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for wha...
_VERSE 7. BE NOT DECEIVED; GOD IS NOT MOCKED._ The Apostle is so worked up over this matter that he is not content with a mere admonition. He utters the threatening words, "God is not mocked." Our cou...
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. GOD IS NOT MOCKED. The Greek [ mukteerizetai (G3456)] is to draw up the nostrils in contempt. God does not...
5 There is a contrast here between a burden and a load. Burden is from the element meaning _ heavy_. Both of these elements occur together in Mat_23:4 "heavy loads". In Mat_11:30 our Lord did not say...
PRACTICAL EXHORTATIONS. THE APOSTLE'S GLORYING 1-5. The nature and requirements of the law of love. PARAPHRASE. '(1) If sin overcome one of your number, try to correct the fault in a temper of gentle...
None can escape the application of God's law of the spiritual harvest....
CHRIST HAS MADE US FREE GALATIANS _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 6 CHRISTIANS SHOULD HELP EACH OTHER V1 My Christian brothers and sisters, a *sin may overcome someone. Those among you whom the Holy Spir...
Paul wanted to emphasise what he was saying here. Someone can cheat another person. But nobody can cheat God. Paul used a farmer as his example. A farmer plants seeds in his fields. If he plants corn,...
(6-10) Special exhortation to liberality in the support of teachers, grounded upon the fact that we shall all receive, in the harvest at the end of the world, according as we have sown during the time...
BE NOT DECEIVED; GOD IS NOT MOCKED. — It is all very well for you to make large professions to which you do not act up. These may deceive others, but do not let them deceive yourselves. Do not think t...
CHAPTER 27 SOWING AND REAPING. Galatians 6:6 EACH shall bear his own burden (Galatians 6:5)-but let there be communion of disciple with teacher in all that is good. The latter sentence is clearly in...
GOD'S JUDGMENT IS UNERRING. THOSE WHO SOW EITHER TO THE FLESH OR TO THE SPIRIT SHALL ALIKE REAP THE HARVEST FOR WHICH THEY HAVE SOWN. BUT FAINT NOT IN WELLDOING, FOR WE SHALL IN DUE TIME REAP LIFE ETE...
μυκτηρίζεται. From its original sense of _sneer_ this verb was applied in rhetorical language to the betrayal of covert ill-will and contempt by cynical gestures in spite of fair words. There can be n...
OUR OWN AND OTHERS' BURDENS Galatians 6:1 The spirit of the world gloats over sin; the Spirit of Christ leads us to restore the sinner. Our first thought should never be of revenge or contempt, or of...
Having dealt with the conduct of liberty thus broadly, the apostle now made some detailed application of the principles enunciated, giving an important illustration pertinent to the whole question of...
(6) Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. (6) He commends liberality towards the poor, and first of all chides those who were not ashamed to pretend...
This is addressed to the avaricious, who, under various pretexts, excused themselves from contributing to the support of their teachers. But they are here informed, that their excuses will not screen...
(6) Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things. (7) Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. (8) For he t...
Galatians 1:1-24. We saw the second of Corinthians characterized by the most rapid transitions of feeling, by a deep and fervent sense of God's consolations, by a revulsion so much the more powerful i...
_AN INEXORABLE LAW_ ‘Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.’ Galatians 6:7 Every habit formed is seed sown. Our thoughts, our words, our deeds are all seed which, in the world to come, w...
7._God is not mocked_. The design of this observation is to reply to the dishonest excuses which are frequently pleaded. One alleges that he has a family to support, and another asserts that he has no...
Here is the answer to those who then sought, and now seek, to bring in law for sanctification and as a guide: the strength and the rule for holiness are in the Spirit. The law does not give the Spirit...
BE NOT DECEIVED,.... By false teachers, who, in order to engross all to themselves, dissuaded the Galatians from communicating to their honourable pastors, and faithful ministers of the word; or by th...
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. Ver. 7. _Be not deceived_] Think not all well saved that is withheld from the minister. It is a saying in the...
_Be not deceived_ As if he had said, It is an easy thing for interested men to find excuses for the neglect of this and other liberalities, which are required for the support and propagation of the go...
IS NOT MOCKED; will not allow men to trifle with him or his requirements....
BE NOT DECEIVED; GOD IS NOT MOCKED; FOR WHATSOEVER A MAN SOWETH, THAT SHALL HE ALSO REAP....
The apostle urges unselfish service:...
CONCERN FOR THOSE WHO FAIL (vs.1-5) The Galatians may have considered themselves spiritual because they were legal-minded. There is a good test for this. What about a person overtaken in a fault? Sha...
DO NOT BE DECEIVED, GOD IS NOT MOCKED; FOR WHATEVER A MAN SOWS, THAT HE WILL ALSO REAP. Don't fool yourself. (vs. 4) God is not fooled. Others will only be fooled temporarily. Eventually, it will b...
6-11 Many excuse themselves from the work of religion, though they may make a show, and profess it. They may impose upon others, yet they deceive themselves if they think to impose upon God, who know...
BE NOT DECEIVED; GOD IS NOT MOCKED: this to terrify those who find out vain and false excuses to save their purses; he adviseth them not to cheat themselves, for though they might deceive men, yet the...
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap....
Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians Knowing, then, that "God is not mocked,"[29] Clement of Alexandria Who is the Rich Man that Shall Be Saved? And for you he will pray purely, held in high hono...
Galatians 6:7 Do G4105 not G3361 deceived G4105 (G5744) God G2316 is G3456 not G3756 mocked G3456 ...
_Miscellaneous Exhortations_. The Apostle exhorts the Galatians to deal gently with a weak brother, to bear the brother's burden, to be on their guard against conceit, to be liberal to their teachers...
BE NOT DECEIVED (μη πλανασθε). Present passive imperative with μη, "stop being led astray" (πλαναω, common verb to wander, to lead astray as in Matthew 24:4).GOD IS NOT MOCKED (ου μυκτηριζετα). Th...
Galatians 6:7 Deceived Sowers to the Flesh. I. The first thing which strikes us in the text is the solemnity of the Apostle's warning. He seems to intimate that such is the audacious wickedness of th...
Galatians 6:7 Christian Diligence. I. The Christian sows to the Spirit, not to the flesh. Let us try to give a plain, practical interpretation to these words. The sowing being interpreted to mean the...
Galatians 6:1. _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...
Galatians 6:1. _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 fal...
Galatians 6:6. _Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things. Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap._ Pa...
CONTENTS: The regenerated life as a brotherhood of believers. CHARACTERS: Holy Spirit, God, Christ, Paul. CONCLUSION: The new life in Christ Jesus is not simply one of being good, but of doing good....
Galatians 6:1. _If a man,_ a brother, _be overtaken in a fault,_ by wine, or passion, or some indiscretion, through surprise, or when off his guard. The offender is a brother, who when so overtaken co...
NO ONE MAKES A FOOL OF GOD. No one can avoid or evade the laws by which God rules the universe. EXACTLY. "Whatever you plant, that is what you can expect to reap!!!...
_Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap._ THE PRESENT SEED-SOWING, DECISIVE OF THE FUTURE HARVEST And I suppose, that nature is full of spiritual ins...
YOUNG FARMERS Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. Galatians 6:7. To the boys and girls of long ago, these seemed terrible words. The reason was that the sermons preached upon them wer...
GALATIANS—NOTE ON GALATIANS 6:7 WHATEVER ONE SOWS, THAT WILL HE ALSO REAP. Paul’s reference to “reaping” has in view the blessings of ETERNAL LIFE that belong to the believer as the result of “sowing”...
GALATIANS—NOTE ON GALATIANS 6:1 Paul illustrates a life of love in the Spirit. ⇐ ⇔...
CHAPTER 6 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. He exhorts the Galatians to good works, especially works of mercy towards Christians, particularly doctors and catechists. He bids them not to seek for the prais...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Galatians 6:6. COMMUNICATE UNTO HIM THAT TEACHETH IN ALL GOOD THINGS.—Go shares with him in the good things of this life. While each bears his own burden he must think...
EXPOSITION GALATIANS 6:1 BRETHREN, IF (or, _although_)_ _A MAN BE OVERTAKEN IN A FAULT (ἀδελφοί ἐὰν καὶ προληφθῇ ἄνθρωπος ἔν τινι παραπτέματι);_ brethren_',_ if even a man hath been over...
Bretheren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such a one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted (Galatians 6:1). The Bible does seem t...
1 Corinthians 15:33; 1 Corinthians 3:18; 1 Corinthians 6:9; 1 John 1:8;...
Be not deceived [μ η π λ α ν α σ θ ε]. For the phrase see 1 Corinthians 6:9; 1 Corinthians 14:33; James 1:16. Deceive is a secondary sense; the primary meaning being lead astray. See on...
RULES FOR THE RIGHTEOUS Galatians 6:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. We have a message sent to saints. It is all in vain for the unsaved to seek to serve the Saviour. The wicked have never been called into...
God is not mocked — Although they attempt to mock him, who think to reap otherwise than they sow....
Here the apostle offers several arguments to consideration, for exciting them to the fore-mentioned duty of liberality and Christian beneficence in general, and to the ministers of the word in particu...