Galatians 6:2

Believers are to bear one another's burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ. Sharing each other's loads is the practical outworking of Christ's law of love.

Cross-references · 20

• Rom 15:1Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
• 1 Th 5:14We exhort you, brothers, admonish the disorderly, encourage the faint-hearted, support the weak, be patient toward all.
• John 13:34A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.
• 1 Jn 4:21This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.
• Jas 2:8However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.
• John 15:12“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.
• Gal 5:13–14For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.
• John 13:14–15If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.
• Exod 23:5If you see the donkey of him who hates you fallen down under his burden, don’t leave him, you shall surely help him with it.
• 1 Jn 2:8–11Again, I write a new commandment to you, which is true in him and in you; because the darkness is passing away, and the true light already shines.
• 1 Pet 2:24who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.
• Matt 8:17that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying, “He took our infirmities, and bore our diseases.”
• Deut 1:12How can I myself alone bear your problems, your burdens, and your strife?
• Rom 8:2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.
• Matt 11:29–30Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.
• Luke 11:46He said, “Woe to you lawyers also! For you load men with burdens that are difficult to carry, and you yourselves won’t even lift one finger to help carry those burdens.
• Num 11:11–12Moses said to Yahweh, “Why have you treated with your servant so badly? Why haven’t I found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me?
• Isa 58:6“Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to release the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?
• Gal 6:5For each man will bear his own burden.
• 1 Cor 9:21to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law.

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