For every man shall bear his own burden.
Reason why a man has no ground for claiming superiority in regard to his neighbour (Galatians 6:4, end). FOR each has his own "burden" ('load') - namely, of infirmity: phortion is different from bare, Galatians 6:2. This verse does not contradict Galatians 6:2. There he tells them to bear with others' "burdens" in forbearing sympathy; here, that self examination will make a man to feel he has enough to do to render an account for 'his own load' of sin, without comparing himself boastfully with his neighbour (cf. Galatians 6:3). Instead of 'thinking himself to be something,' he shall feel his own 'load' of sin: this will lead him to bear sympathetically with his neighbour's weights of infirmity. AEsop says a man carries two bags over his shoulder; the one with his own sins hanging behind, that with his neighbour's sins in front.