Galatians 6 in plain modern English. New Ground English Translation.
Time Period
~AD 48-55
Location
Churches in the region of Galatia (central Asia Minor, modern-day Turkey)
Audience
Mixed congregations of Jewish and Gentile Christians in the Galatian churches established by Paul
Situation
Paul concludes his letter addressing a crisis where false teachers (Judaizers) were pressuring Gentile believers to adopt circumcision and follow Mosaic Law for salvation. Chapter 6 provides final practical instructions and warnings after Paul's theological defense of justification by faith.
Key Background
The entire letter combats the teaching that faith in Christ must be supplemented with adherence to Jewish law. In this closing chapter, Paul emphasizes Christian community responsibility, warns against self-deception, and exposes the Judaizers' true motives—avoiding persecution while boasting in their converts' conformity. Paul's references to 'the marks of Jesus' on his body contrast with the Judaizers' emphasis on circumcision as a physical mark.
and if someone gets caught up in some kind of those of you who are by the should that on But watch yourself -- you could just as easily be pulled into the same thing.
Carry each other's -- that's how you fulfill the of The
If you think you're something special when you're really not, you're only
Each person should their own work. Then they can in what they themselves have done, without comparing themselves to someone else.
Because everyone has their own to carry.
Anyone who is being the should all with the person teaching them.
Don't be fooled -- nobody a of God. Whatever you plant is exactly what you'll harvest.
If you plant to satisfy your own your will give you a harvest of But if you plant to satisfy the the will give you a harvest of
So let's not of Because if we don't give up, we'll harvest at just the
So then, whenever we have the let's do good to everyone -- and especially to those who belong to the of
Look at these letters I'm using as I write to you with my own
The people who are trying to pressure you into getting -- they just want to on the The only reason they do it is to avoid being persecuted for the of The
Even the ones who are circumcised don't actually follow the themselves! They just want you circumcised so they can about getting you to conform to their external markers.
But as for me, I will never brag about anything except the of Jesus The One. Through that the has been to as far as I'm concerned, and I've been to as far as the is concerned.
Because whether someone is circumcised or uncircumcised doesn't matter at all. What matters is being made into an entirely
And for everyone who lives by this -- and on them, and on the of
From now on, nobody should give me trouble. Because I carry the scars of Jesus branded on my body.
The of Jesus The One, be with your brothers and sisters. it be so.