Galati 6
Conferenza Episcopale Italiana
Precetti vari intorno alla carità e allo zelo
6 Fratelli, qualora uno venga sorpreso in qualche colpa, voi che avete lo Spirito correggetelo con dolcezza. E vigila su te stesso, per non cadere anche tu in tentazione. 2 Portate i pesi gli uni degli altri, così adempirete la legge di Cristo. 3 Se infatti uno pensa di essere qualcosa mentre non è nulla, inganna se stesso. 4 Ciascuno esamini invece la propria condotta e allora solo in se stesso e non negli altri troverà motivo di vanto: 5 ciascuno infatti porterà il proprio fardello.
6 Chi viene istruito nella dottrina, faccia parte di quanto possiede a chi lo istruisce. 7 Non vi fate illusioni; non ci si può prendere gioco di Dio. Ciascuno raccoglierà quello che avrà seminato. 8 Chi semina nella sua carne, dalla carne raccoglierà corruzione; chi semina nello Spirito, dallo Spirito raccoglierà vita eterna. 9 E non stanchiamoci di fare il bene; se infatti non desistiamo, a suo tempo mieteremo. 10 Poiché dunque ne abbiamo l'occasione, operiamo il bene verso tutti, soprattutto verso i fratelli nella fede.
Epilogo
11 Vedete con che grossi caratteri vi scrivo, ora, di mia mano. 12 Quelli che vogliono fare bella figura nella carne, vi costringono a farvi circoncidere, solo per non essere perseguitati a causa della croce di Cristo. 13 Infatti neanche gli stessi circoncisi osservano la legge, ma vogliono la vostra circoncisione per trarre vanto dalla vostra carne. 14 Quanto a me invece non ci sia altro vanto che nella croce del Signore nostro Gesù Cristo, per mezzo della quale il mondo per me è stato crocifisso, come io per il mondo. 15 Non è infatti la circoncisione che conta, né la non circoncisione, ma l'essere nuova creatura. 16 E su quanti seguiranno questa norma sia pace e misericordia, come su tutto l'Israele di Dio. 17 D'ora innanzi nessuno mi procuri fastidi: difatti io porto le stigmate di Gesù nel mio corpo.
18 La grazia del Signore nostro Gesù Cristo sia con il vostro spirito, fratelli. Amen.
Galatians 6
Living Bible
6 Dear brothers, if a Christian is overcome by some sin, you who are godly should gently and humbly help him back onto the right path, remembering that next time it might be one of you who is in the wrong. 2 Share each other’s troubles and problems, and so obey our Lord’s command. 3 If anyone thinks he is too great to stoop to this, he is fooling himself. He is really a nobody.
4 Let everyone be sure that he is doing his very best, for then he will have the personal satisfaction of work well done and won’t need to compare himself with someone else. 5 Each of us must bear some faults and burdens of his own. For none of us is perfect!
6 Those who are taught the Word of God should help their teachers by paying them.
7 Don’t be misled; remember that you can’t ignore God and get away with it: a man will always reap just the kind of crop he sows! 8 If he sows to please his own wrong desires, he will be planting seeds of evil and he will surely reap a harvest of spiritual decay and death; but if he plants the good things of the Spirit, he will reap the everlasting life that the Holy Spirit gives him. 9 And let us not get tired of doing what is right, for after a while we will reap a harvest of blessing if we don’t get discouraged and give up. 10 That’s why whenever we can we should always be kind to everyone, and especially to our Christian brothers.
11 I will write these closing words in my own handwriting. See how large I have to make the letters! 12 Those teachers of yours who are trying to convince you to be circumcised are doing it for just one reason: so that they can be popular and avoid the persecution they would get if they admitted that the cross of Christ alone can save. 13 And even those teachers who submit to circumcision don’t try to keep the other Jewish laws; but they want you to be circumcised in order that they can boast that you are their disciples.
14 As for me, God forbid that I should boast about anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. Because of that cross, my interest in all the attractive things of the world was killed long ago, and the world’s interest in me is also long dead. 15 It doesn’t make any difference now whether we have been circumcised or not; what counts is whether we really have been changed into new and different people.
16 May God’s mercy and peace be upon all of you who live by this principle and upon those everywhere who are really God’s own.
17 From now on please don’t argue with me about these things, for I carry on my body the scars of the whippings and wounds from Jesus’ enemies that mark me as his slave.
18 Dear brothers, may the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.
Sincerely, Paul
Galatians 6
English Standard Version
Bear One Another's Burdens
6 Brothers,[a] (A)if anyone is caught in any transgression, (B)you who are spiritual should restore him in (C)a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted. 2 (D)Bear one another's burdens, and (E)so fulfill (F)the law of Christ. 3 For (G)if anyone thinks he is something, (H)when he is nothing, he deceives himself. 4 But let each one (I)test his own work, and then his reason to boast will be in himself alone and not in his neighbor. 5 For (J)each will have to bear his own load.
6 (K)Let the one who is taught the word share all good things with the one who teaches. 7 (L)Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for (M)whatever one sows, that will he also reap. 8 For (N)the one who sows to his own flesh (O)will from the flesh reap corruption, but (P)the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life. 9 And (Q)let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, (R)if we do not give up. 10 So then, (S)as we have opportunity, let us (T)do good to everyone, and especially to those who are (U)of the household of faith.
Final Warning and Benediction
11 See with what large letters I am writing to you (V)with my own hand. 12 (W)It is those who want to make a good showing in the flesh (X)who would force you to be circumcised, and only (Y)in order that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ. 13 For even those who are circumcised do not themselves keep the law, but they desire to have you circumcised that they may boast in your flesh. 14 But far be it from me to boast (Z)except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which[b] the world (AA)has been crucified to me, and I to the world. 15 For (AB)neither circumcision counts for anything, nor uncircumcision, but (AC)a new creation. 16 And as for all who walk by this rule, (AD)peace and mercy be upon them, and upon (AE)the Israel of God.
17 From now on let no one cause me trouble, for I bear on my body the marks of Jesus.
18 (AF)The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be (AG)with your spirit, brothers. Amen.
Footnotes
- Galatians 6:1 Or Brothers and sisters; also verse 18
- Galatians 6:14 Or through whom
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