Galatians 6
New Testament for Everyone
Bearing one another’s burdens
6 My dear family, if someone is found out in some trespass, then you—the “spiritual” ones!—should set such a person right, in a spirit of gentleness. Watch out for yourselves: you too may be tested. 2 Carry each other’s burdens; that’s the way to fulfill the Messiah’s law. 3 If you think you’re something when you are not, you deceive yourself. 4 Every one of you should test your own work, and then you will have a reason to boast of yourself, not of somebody else. 5 Each of you, you see, will have to carry your own load.
Practical support in the church
6 If someone is being taught the word, they should share with the teacher all the good things they have. 7 Don’t be misled; God won’t have people turning their noses up at him. What you sow is what you’ll reap. 8 Yes: if you sow in the field of your flesh you will harvest decay from your flesh, but if you sow in the field of the spirit you will harvest eternal life from the spirit. 9 Don’t lose your enthusiasm for behaving properly. You’ll bring in the harvest at the proper time, if you don’t become weary. 10 So, then, while we have the chance, let’s do good to everyone, and particularly to the household of the faith.
Boasting in the cross
11 Look at the large-size letters I’m writing to you in my own hand. 12 It’s the people who want to make a fine showing in the flesh who are trying to force you into getting circumcised—for this purpose only, that they may avoid persecution for the Messiah’s cross. 13 You see, even the circumcised ones don’t keep the law; rather, they want you to be circumcised, so that they may boast about your flesh.
14 As for me, God forbid that I should boast—except in the cross of our Lord Jesus the Messiah, through whom the world has been crucified to me and I to the world. 15 Circumcision, you see, is nothing; neither is uncircumcision! What matters is new creation. 16 Peace and mercy on everyone who lines up by that standard—yes, on God’s Israel.
17 For the rest, let nobody make trouble for me. You see, I carry the marks of Jesus on my body.
18 The grace of our Lord Jesus the Messiah be with your spirit, my dear family. Amen.
加拉太書 6
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Traditional)
互相扶持
6 弟兄姊妹，如果有人不慎犯了罪，你們順從聖靈的人就應該溫柔地挽回他，同時也要小心，免得自己也受誘惑。 2 你們要分擔彼此的重擔，這樣就成全了基督的律法。 3 如果一個一無是處的人自以為了不起，他是自欺。 4 人人都應該省察自己的行為，即使覺得有可誇之處，自己知道就好了，不必在別人面前炫耀。 5 因為人人都應該為自己的行為負責。
6 在真道上受教的人應該把一切美好的東西分享給教導他的人。
7 不要自欺，上帝是輕慢不得的。人種什麼收什麼。 8 順從罪惡的本性撒種的，必從罪惡的本性收取敗壞的惡果；順從聖靈撒種的，必從聖靈收取永生。 9 我們行善不可灰心氣餒，因為到時候必有收穫。 10 我們要把握機會為眾人做善事，對待信徒更要如此。
最後的勸勉和祝福
11 你們看，我親手寫給你們的字是多麼大啊[a]！ 12 那些勉強你們接受割禮的人只不過是做表面工夫，想討好別人，避免為基督的十字架受迫害。 13 那些接受割禮的人自己也不能遵行律法。他們要你們接受割禮，無非是想藉著你們的肉體誇耀。 14 至於我自己，我絕不誇耀別的，只誇耀我們主耶穌基督的十字架。因為對我來說，世上的一切都已經被釘在十字架上；對這世界來說，我已經被釘在十字架上。 15 受不受割禮根本無關緊要，做一個新造的人才至關重要。
16 願上帝的平安和憐憫歸給那些願意按這原則生活的人，也歸給上帝的以色列子民[b]。 17 但願從今以後，再也沒有人來攪擾我了，因為我身上已經烙上了耶穌的印記。
18 弟兄姊妹，願我們主耶穌基督的恩典與你們同在。阿們！
Scripture quotations from The New Testament for Everyone are copyright © Nicholas Thomas Wright 2011, 2018, 2019.
