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Galatians 6:2

Epistle of Ignatius to Hero, a Deacon of Antioch

Have a care to preserve concord with the saints. Bear [the burdens of] the weak, that "thou mayest fulfil the law of Christ."[2]

Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book III

Be not deceived; God is not mocked. Let us not be weary in well-doing: for in due time we shall reap, if we faint not."[203]

Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book III

Nos quidem castitatem, et eos, quibus hoc a Deo datum est, beatos decimus: monogamiam autem, et quae consistit in uno solum matrimonio, honestatem admira tour; dicerites tamen oportere aliorum misereri, et "alterum alterius onera portare,"[5]

Tertullian Against Marcion Book V

the gist of it all being concentrated in this one precept! But this condensation of the law is, in fact, only possible to Him who is the Author of it. When, therefore, he says, "Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ,"[180]

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  • A Textual Commentary On The Greek New Testament by Bruce M. Metzger

    GALATIANS 6:2 avnaplhrw,sete {C} Although the aorist imperative avnaplhrw,sate is strongly supported (a A C Dgr K P Y 614 1739 syrh arm _al_), the future tense appeared to the Committee to be slightl...

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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, w...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    Third safeguard. If things become bad and a Christian falls into open fault, loving Christian friends (acting as individuals rather than as a church? But, on any view, the verse is an important contri...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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....

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    BURDEN-BEARING (Galatians 6:1-5)...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    Brothers, if a man is caught out in some moral slip-up, you whose lives are dominated by the Spirit must correct such a man with the spirit of gentleness, and, as you do it, you must think about yours...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    BURDENS. Greek. _baros_. Compare Galatians 6:5. Baros is the burden we can bear by help and sympathy. FULFIL. Greek. _anapleroo_. See 1 Corinthians 14:16. LAW. Cf. John 13:34;...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _one another's burdens_ Brotherhood is a mutual relationship, and entails mutual good offices. _burdens_ This is not the same word in the Greek which is rendered -burden" in Galatians 6:5. It denotes...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    13–6:10. PRACTICAL. LIBERTY IS NOT LICENSE BUT SERVICE; NOT THE FLESH BUT THE SPIRIT MUST BE THE AIM OF THE BELIEVER...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    25–6:6. _Life by the spirit brings unselfish care for others, e.g. for one’s teachers_ (Galatians 5:25) Life by the spirit leads to a life in right relation to others. (Galatians 5:26) We must all bew...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    ἈΝΑΠΛΗΡΏΣΑΤΕ. Text. Rec. with אACDGRKL etc. syrHarcl. ἀναπληρώσετε is read by BG vulg. syrPesh. 2. The suggestion of common weakness producing sympathy with a fallen brother leads to the thought of a...

  • Charles Rose Commentaries

    ΑΛΛΉΛΩΝ (G240) _gen. pl._ друг друга, ΒΆΡΗ _pl. асс. от_ ΒΆΡΟΣ (G922) бремя, то, что отягощает (ВСС). ΒΑΣΤΆΖΕΤΕ _praes. imper. act. от_ ΒΑΣΤΆΖΩ (G941) нести, носить, уносить, терпеть (ММ), ΆΝΑΠΛΗΡΏ...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 2087 BENEVOLENCE RECOMMENDED Galatians 6:2. _Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ_. TO open and unfold the mystery of the Gospel, is doubtless an employment which...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    BEAR YE ONE ANOTHER'S BURDENS,— "Bear with one another's infirmities; help to support each other, under the necessary burdens and evils of life;—and _so fulfil the law of Christ."_ See Romans 15:1 and...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    C. DEMANDS OF FREEDOM Galatians 6:1-10 1. Mutual helpfulness and responsibilities Galatians 6:1-5 TEXT 6:1-5 (1) Brethren, even if a man be overtaken in any trespass, ye who are spiritual, restore...

  • Combined Bible Commentary

    _VERSE 2. BEAR YE ONE ANOTHER'S BURDENS, AND SO FULFILL THE LAW OF CHRIST._...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. If ye, legalists, must 'bear burdens,' then (Matthew 23:4) 'bear, not legal (Matthew 23:4), but one another's burdens' (bare), 'weigh...

  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

    1 This paragraph is the summary and conclusion of the doctrinal argument. Tersely, he puts the case. Which shall it be _ Christ _ or _ circumcision_!' No half hearted allegiance here, no serving of tw...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    6:2 Bear (b-1) fulfil (b-7) 'Bear' is in the present tense, 'fulfil' in the aorist. 'thus have it fulfilled.' see Romans 6:13 . burdens, (c-4) The words for 'burden' in vers. 2 and 5 are different; v...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    Cp. Romans 15:1. BEAR] in sympathy. LAW OF CHRIST] cp. Matthew 8:17. St. Paul has warned them against law; but there is a law to which they owe obedience and devotion—the new commandment of Christ—the...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    The word for ‘troubles’ describes a heavy load. It refers to anything that makes life difficult for a person. Paul had already mentioned this law in 5:14, ‘You must love other people as you love yours...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    VI. (1-5) Be charitable to the fallen, for you, too, may fall yourselves. Sympathise with each other. Indulge in no delusions as to your own superiority. Look each to his own work, and see that that...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    BEAR YO ONE ANOTHER’S BURDENS. — Take them upon yourselves by kindly sympathy. Our Lord Himself was said to “bear” the physical infirmities of those whom He healed. (Matthew 8:17 : “He bare our sickne...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER 26 OUR BROTHER'S BURDEN AND OUR OWN. Galatians 6:1 THE division of the Chapter s at this point is almost as unfortunate as that between chaps. 4 and 5. The introductory "Brethren" is not a f...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    βαστάζετε. From its original sense of taking up, this verb acquires the most various meanings, _e.g., carrying_ in Matthew 20:12, _ministration_ in Matthew 3:11, _robbery_ in John 12:6. Here it signif...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    to Galatians 6:6. RULES OF CONDUCT DICTATED BY THE SPIRIT OF MUTUAL LOVE....

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    (3) Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the (e) law of Christ. (3) He shows that this is the end of rebukes, to raise up our brother who is fallen, and not proudly to oppress him. Therefore...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    One another's burdens. This is not contrary to what is added ver. 5, that every one shall bear his own burden, because in the first place the sense is, that we must bear patiently with one another's f...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (1) В¶ 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. (2) Bear ye one another's burd...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _MUTUAL HELP_ ‘Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.’ Galatians 6:2 There are two great forces for uplifting human life, when it is low in quality and low in material pros...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    2._Bear ye one another’s burdens_. The weaknesses or sins, under which we groan, are called _burdens_. This phrase is singularly appropriate in an exhortation to kind behavior, for nature dictates to...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole 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...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. Ver. 2. _Bear ye one another's burdens_] When after reprehension sin is become a burden, set to your shoulder, and help to lift it off....

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Bear ye one another's burdens_ Sympathize with and assist each other, in all your weaknesses, grievances, trials. The apostle alludes to the custom of travellers, who, when too heavily laden with the...

  • Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament (1851)

    ONE ANOTHER'S BURDENS; of weakness, temptation, and sorrow. THE LAW OF CHRIST; to love one another as he has loved them. John 15:12....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    BEAR YE ONE ANOTHER'S BURDENS, AND SO FULFILL THE LAW OF CHRIST....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Admonition to Serve One's Neighbor in Love. A warning against self-exaltation:...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Manly Luscombe Commentary on New Testament

    BRETHREN, IF A MAN IS OVERTAKEN IN ANY TRESPASS, YOU WHO _ARE_ SPIRITUAL RESTORE SUCH A ONE IN A SPIRIT OF GENTLENESS, CONSIDERING YOURSELF LEST YOU ALSO BE TEMPTED. Overtaken - caught off guard; sin...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-5 We are to bear one another's burdens. So we shall fulfil the law of Christ. This obliges to mutual forbearance and compassion towards each other, agreeably to his example. It becomes us to bear o...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    BEAR YE ONE ANOTHER'S BURDENS; it is a general precept, and may be either understood with reference to what he had said in the former verse, so it hints our duty: though we discern our brethren to hav...

  • McGarvey and Pendleton Commentaries

    Bear ye one another's burdens [Greek, bara, burden, or distresses], _and so fulfil the law of Christ._...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Galatians 6:2 Bear G941 (G5720) anothers G240 burdens G922 and G2532 so G3779 fulfill G378 (G5657) law...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘Brothers, even if a man is overtaken in any trespass, you who are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of meekness, looking to yourself lest you also be tempted. Bear you one another's burdens,...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE NEED TO CONSTANTLY HELP EACH OTHER WITHOUT CONDESCENSION (GALATIANS 6:1). While confident in the Holy Spirit Paul does recognise that God's people will require assistance in their walk with Him. W...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    Galatians 6:2. BEAR YE ONE ANOTHER'S BURDENS, all sorts of troubles, cares, errors, and infirmities. Sin and error should be resisted and rebuked in a spirit of charity and meekness; but with all our...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    _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...

  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

    BEAR YE ONE ANOTHER'S BURDENS (αλληλων τα βαρη βασταζετε). Keep on bearing (present active imperative of βασταζω, old word, used of Jesus bearing his Cross in John 19:17. Βαρος means weight as in Ma...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Galatians 6:2 I. We must take this text into the sphere of realism; that is, we must not touch trouble sentimentally. There are some people in the world who are curious about a trouble. Be very carefu...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Galatians 6:1. _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,» Galatians 6:1. _Ye which ar...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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....

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Bible Study New Testament

    HELP CARRY. "Instead of being hostile and scolding one another, you must _help each other_ carry burdens." This is the spirit of _community_ Burden = BARE! _MacKnight_ says: "This is an allusion to th...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ._ BURDEN-BEARING These two principles are:-- I. The brotherhood of souls--“Bear ye one another’s burdens.” II. The responsibility of...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    GALATIANS—NOTE ON GALATIANS 6:1 Paul illustrates a life of love in the Spirit. ⇐ ⇔...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    GALATIANS—NOTE ON GALATIANS 6:2 AND SO FULFILL THE LAW OF CHRIST. In a broad sense this means the entire body of ethical teaching that Jesus gave and endorsed (see note on 1 Cor. 9:21). In a specific...

  • The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide

    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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Galatians 6:1. OVERTAKEN IN A FAULT.—Be caught red-handed in any transgression, the result of some sudden and overpowering gust of evil impulse. RESTORE SUCH AN ONE.—T...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 9:21; 1 John 2:8; 1 John 4:21; 1 Peter 2:24;...

  • Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament (4 Volume Set)

    One another's burdens [α λ λ η λ ω ν τ α β α ρ η]. The emphasis is on one another's, in contrast with the selfishness which leaves others to take care of themselves. The primary reference in burdens i...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    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...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Bear ye one another's burdens — Sympathize with, and assist, each other, in all your weaknesses, grievances, trials. And so fulfil the law of Christ — The law of Christ (an uncommon expression) is the...

  • William Burkitt's Expository Notes

    This is. general precept, and requires us to sympathize with our brethren in all thier sorrows and sufferings, and to bear. part with them under the load and burden of oppressive wants and necessities...

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