Galatians 6:5

For every man … burden For no man can escape from his own moral responsibility. The verse reads like a proverb. The -burden" is the -load" of accoutrements and provisions assigned to each soldier to carry on a march. Others regard the metaphor as taken from shipping affairs, and render the word -freight". This is quite admissible as a verbaltranslation; but the phrase, -each manshall carry his own cargo" may appear less satisfactory. There is no paradox or contradiction to the precept of Galatians 6:2 except in the English version which renders two distinct words in the original by the same English word -burden".