Galatians 6:6

But let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things.

Huxtable noted that this exhortation to "liberality toward our teachers is perfectly germane to the preceding topics of sharing one another's loads, and so carrying our own pack."[17] However, it is germane in another very important relationship. Paul here was enumerating a number of things included in the Law of Christ, not a total summary, of course, but a list of particulars in which he felt the Galatians might need special exhortation. This is No. 3 of a group of things Paul stressed. It means financially support your teachers. Conybeare made the meaning clearer by capitalizing Word,[18] showing that not all teachers are indicated but that teachers of the Word of God are meant.

Howard observed that the word here rendered "communicate" is [@koinoneo], meaning to share, or participate, even as a partner.[19] Failure to understand this reference to the Christian duty of giving support of the gospel as pertaining to the Law of Christ led to the somewhat humorous exclamation of Ridderbos that "It is difficult to find the right connection between verse 6 and what precedes ..."[20] Of course, it connects with that Law of Christ which none of the commentators can see!

[17] E. Huxtable, op. cit., p. 297.

[18] Conybeare and Howson, The Life and Epistles of St Paul (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1966), p. 492.

[19] R. E. Howard, Beacon Bible Commentary, Galatians (Kansas City, Missouri: Beacon Hill Press, 1965), Vol. IX, p. 116.

[20] H. N. Ridderbos, op. cit., p. 216.