Galatians 6:1 Cross References - Twentieth_Century

¹ Brothers, even if a man should be caught committing a sin, you who are spiritually minded should, in a gentle spirit, help him to recover himself, taking care lest any one of you also should be tempted.

¹³ Go and learn what this means--'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice'; for I did not come to call the religious, but the outcast."

²⁹ Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly-minded, and 'you shall find rest for your souls';

¹² What think you? If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them strays, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills, and go and search for the one that is straying? ¹³ And, if he succeeds in finding it, I tell you that he rejoices more over that one sheep than over the ninety-nine which did not stray. ¹⁴ So, too, it is the will of my Father who is in Heaven that not one of these lowly ones should be lost. ¹⁵ If your Brother does wrong, go to him and convince him of his fault when you and he are alone. If he listens to you, you have won your Brother.

⁶⁹ Peter, meanwhile, was sitting outside in the courtyard; and a maidservant came up to him, and exclaimed: "Why, you were with Jesus the Galilean!"

⁷⁵ and Peter remembered the words which Jesus had said-- 'Before a cock has crowed, you will disown me three times'; and he went outside, and wept bitterly.

⁴ "What man among you who has a hundred sheep, and has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine out in the open country, and go after the lost sheep till he finds it? ⁵ And, when he has found it, he puts in on his shoulders rejoicing; ⁶ And, on reaching home, he calls his friends and his neighbors together, and says 'Come and rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost.' ⁷ So, I tell you, there will be more rejoicing in Heaven over one outcast that repents, than over ninety-nine religious men, who have no need to repent.

²² But the father turned to his servants and said 'Be quick and fetch a robe--the very best--and put it on him; give him a ring for his finger and sandals for his feet; ²³ And bring the fattened calf and kill it, and let us eat and make merry; ²⁴ For here is my son who was dead, and is alive again, was lost, and is found.' So they began making merry. ²⁵ Meanwhile the elder son was out in the fields; but, on coming home, when he got near the house, he heard music and dancing, ²⁶ And he called one of the servants and asked what it all meant. ²⁷ 'Your brother has come back,' the servant told him, 'and your father has killed the fattened calf, because he has him back safe and sound.' ²⁸ This made him angry, and he would not go in. But his father came out and begged him to do so. ²⁹ 'No,' he said to his father, 'look at all the years I have been serving you, without ever once disobeying you, and yet you have never given me even a kid, so that I might have a merry-making with my friends. ³⁰ But, no sooner has this son of yours come, who has eaten up your property in the company of prostitutes, than you have killed the fattened calf for him.' ³¹ 'Child,' the father answered, 'you are always with me, and everything that I have is yours. ³² We could but make merry and rejoice, for here is your brother who was dead, and is alive; who was lost, and is found.'"

⁶ To be earthly-minded means Death, to be spiritually minded means Life and Peace;

¹ As for those whose faith is weak, always receive them as friends, but not for the purpose of passing judgment on their scruples.

¹ We, the strong, ought to take on our own shoulders the weaknesses of those who are not strong, and not merely to please ourselves.

¹⁵ But the man with spiritual insight is able to understand everything, although he himself is understood by no one.

¹ But I, Brothers, could not speak to you as men with spiritual insight, but only as worldly-minded-mere infants in the Faith of Christ.

²¹ What do you wish? Am I to come to you with a rod, or in a loving and gentle spirit?

⁵ Do not deprive each other of what is due-unless it is only for a time and by mutual consent, so that your minds may be free for prayer till you again live as man and wife-lest Satan should take advantage of your want of self-control and tempt you.

¹² Therefore let the man who thinks that he stands take care that he does not fall.

³⁷ If any one thinks that he has the gift of preaching or any other spiritual gift, let him recognize that what I am now saying to you is a command from the Lord.

⁷ So that now you must take the opposite course, and forgive and encourage him, or else he may be overwhelmed by the intensity of his pain.

¹ Now, I, Paul, make a personal appeal to you by the meekness and gentleness of the Christ--I who, "in your presence, am humble in my bearing towards you, but, when absent, am bold in my language to you"--

¹¹ But, when Peter came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face; for he stood self-condemned. ¹² Before certain persons came from James, he had been in the habit of eating with the Gentile converts; but, when they came, he began to withdraw and hold aloof, for fear of offending those who still held to circumcision. ¹³ The rest of the Jewish converts were guilty of the same hypocrisy, so that even Barnabas was led away by it.

²³ Against such things there is no law!

¹⁵ Yet do not think of him as an enemy, but caution him as you would a Brother.

²⁵ He should instruct his opponents in a gentle spirit; for, possibly, God may give them a repentance that will lead to a fuller knowledge of Truth,

¹³ make straight paths for your feet,' so that the lame limb may not be put out of joint, but rather be cured.

³ Remember the prisoners, as if you were their fellow-prisoners, and the oppressed, not forgetting that you also are still in the body.

² We often make mistakes, every one of us. Any one who does not make mistakes when speaking is indeed a perfect man, able to bridle his whole body as well.

¹³ Who among you claims to be wise and intelligent? Let him show that his actions are the outcome of a good life lived in the humility of true wisdom.

¹⁹ My Brothers, should one of you be led astray from the Truth, and some one bring him back again, ²⁰ Be sure that he who brings a sinner back from his mistaken ways will save that man's soul from Death, and throw a veil over countless sins.

¹⁵ Revere the Christ as Lord in your hearts; always ready to give an answer to any one who asks your reason for the hope that you cherish, but giving it humbly and in all reverence,

¹⁶ If any one sees his Brother committing some sin that is not a deadly sin, he will ask, and so be the means of giving Life to him--to any whose sin is not deadly. There is such a thing as deadly sin; about that I do not say that a man should pray.

²² To some show pity, because they are in doubt. 'Drag them out of the fire,' and save them. ²³ To others show pity, but with caution, hating the very clothing polluted by their touch.