Galatians 6:6-10

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 mayhave been suggested as a particular application of the general principle, -bear ye one another's burdens". But we so often meet with a number of disconnected injunctions at the end of St Paul's Epistles, that this abrupt introduction of this paragraph need cause no difficulty. The connecting particle, -but" or -moreover", omitted in A.V. is restored in R.V. The duty here enjoined is frequently insisted upon by St Paul, 1 Corinthians 9:11-14; Philippians 4:10; Philippians 4:17; 1 Timothy 5:17-18. He had already urged it upon the Galatian converts, as we learn from 1 Corinthians 16:1. That he insists upon it again in such forcible terms would seem to shew that they were not prone to the exercise of liberality.