Verse 5
This verse gives a reason for the injunction in Galatians 6:4. Every Christian is responsible to carry his own weight. We all have a load to bear, but it is comparatively light (Matthew 11:30). The burden in Galatians 6:2 is an excessive burden. The load in Galatians 6:5 is our normal burden of responsibility. Paul used two different Greek words to describe these two burdens (bare and phortion respectively).
"Those are best able to sustain another who have proved their own power to be sustained in trials of their own." [Note: Guthrie, Galatians, pp. 144-45.]
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