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32 lines
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Markdown
Carry One Another's Burdens
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# Chapter 6
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1. Brothers and sisters, if someone is overtaken in any wrongdoing, you who are spiritual, restore such a person with a gentle spirit, watching out for yourselves so that you also won't be tempted.
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2. Carry one another's burdens; in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.
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3. For if anyone considers himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
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4. Let each person examine his own work, and then he can take pride in himself alone, and not compare himself with someone else.
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5. For each person will have to carry his own load.
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6. Let the one who is taught the word share all his good things with the teacher.
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7. Don't be deceived: God is not mocked. For whatever a person sows he will also reap,
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8. because the one who sows to his flesh will reap destruction from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.
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9. Let us not get tired of doing good, for we will reap at the proper time if we don't give up.
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10. Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us work for the good of all, especially for those who belong to the household of faith.
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Concluding Exhortation
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11. Look at what large letters I use as I write to you in my own handwriting.
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12. Those who want to make a good impression in the flesh are the ones who would compel you to be circumcised--but only to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Christ.
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13. For even the circumcised don't keep the law themselves, and yet they want you to be circumcised in order to boast about your flesh.
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14. But as for me, I will never boast about anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. The world has been crucified to me through the cross, and I to the world.
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15. For both circumcision and uncircumcision mean nothing; what matters instead is a new creation.
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16. May peace come to all those who follow this standard, and mercy even to the Israel of God!
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17. From now on, let no one cause me trouble, because I bear on my body the marks of Jesus.
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18. Brothers and sisters, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.
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