Galatians 6:4,5 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Shall he have rejoicing, &c.— Shall he have whereof to rejoice. The meaningof the passage is this: "Brethren, there are some among you who would bring others under the ritual observances of the Mosaic law; a yoke which was too heavy for us and our fathers to bear. They would do much better to ease the burdens of the weak; this is suitable to the law of Christ, which they are under, and is the law which they ought strictly to obey. If they think, because of their spiritual gifts, that they have power to prescribe in such matters, I tell them that they have not, and do but deceive themselves: let them rather take care of their own experience and practice, that they be right, and such as they ought to be; this will give them matter of rejoicing in themselves, and not vainly in others, as they do, when they prevail with them to be circumcised; for every man shall be answerable for his own actions, experience, and conduct, whether of an internal or external kind."

Galatians 6:4-5

4 But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.

5 For every man shall bear his own burden.