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Galatians 6

World English Bible, Catholic edition, in plain modern English. About the translations

1 Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness, looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

2 Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. CCC

3 For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

4 But let each man examine his own work, and then he will have reason to boast in himself, and not in someone else.

5 For each man will bear his own burden.

6 But let him who is taught in the word share all good things with him who teaches.

7 Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. Fathers

8 For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

9 Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season if we don’t give up.

10 So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.

11 See with what large letters I write to you with my own hand.

12 As many as desire to make a good impression in the flesh compel you to be circumcised, just so they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.

13 For even they who receive circumcision don’t keep the law themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised, so that they may boast in your flesh.

14 But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. CCC

15 For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation. CCC

16 As many as walk by this rule, peace and mercy be on them, and on God’s Israel.

17 From now on, let no one cause me any trouble, for I bear the marks of the Lord Jesus branded on my body.

18 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers. Amen.

This chapter in the Catechism and the early Church

Where the Catechism of the Catholic Church cites these verses (from its footnotes on vatican.va), and where the earliest Church Fathers quote them (Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1, public domain). Short quotes only; follow the links for the full text.

  1. Read the Catechism
    • CCC 1642 “Christ is the source of this grace. "Just as of old God encountered his people with a covenant of love and fidelity,…”
  2. Read the Fathers
    • “Knowing, then, that "God is not mocked,”

      Quoted in Letter to the Philippians, St. Polycarp of Smyrna (early 2nd century), Chapter V. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1

  3. Read the Catechism
    • CCC 1460 “The penance the confessor imposes must take into account the penitent's personal situation and must seek his spiritual good. It must correspond…”
  4. Read the Catechism
    • CCC 1214 “This sacrament is called Baptism, after the central rite by which it is carried out: to baptize (Greek baptizein) means to "plunge"…”