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Time after Pentecost · Proper 9 · Year C

Galatians 6:1-10, 14-18

Bearing One Another's Burdens, Boasting Only in the Cross

July 9, 2028

The Sower, Vincent van Gogh
The Sower, Vincent van Gogh, 1888Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
A sower against a huge yellow sun, the whole field laid in with violet and gold straight from the tube. Van Gogh painted the subject over thirty times, always after Millet.The one who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly: these readings all use sowing for giving, and this is the most unstinting painting of it.Vincent van GoghVan Gogh (1853-1890) trained first for the ministry and preached in a Belgian mining district before taking up painting, which he did seriously for only the last decade of his life.Van Gogh Museum, AmsterdamBuilt around the pictures Van Gogh's brother kept, and so the only place to follow his ten working years in order.Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
LSB Three-Year Lectionary
GospelLuke 10:1-20Lk 10:1-20
EpistleGal. 6:1-10, 14-18Gal 6:1-10, 14-18
Old TestamentIsa. 66:10-14Is 66:10-14
PsalterPs. 66:1-7Ps 66:1-7

Overview & Insights

"May I never boast of anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ." (Galatians 6:14)

Paul closes the letter urging the Galatians to restore those caught in sin gently, bear one another's burdens, and not grow weary in doing good. He contrasts sowing to the flesh with sowing to the Spirit, and in his own handwriting insists that neither circumcision nor uncircumcision matters, only new creation.

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Commentary

Commentary on Galatians 6:[1-6] 7-16Commentary on Gal 6:[1-6] 7-16 Working Preacher

Explains Paul's closing exhortations on burden-bearing and sowing and reaping.

Galatians 6 Commentary: Final Instructions, Verse by VerseGal 6 Commentary: Final Instructions, Verse by Verse Enduring Word · David Guzik

Covers restoring a sinner gently, bearing burdens, and boasting only in the cross.

Galatians 6:1 CommentariesGal 6:1 Commentaries BibleHub

Collects classic commentary on restoring one caught in a transgression.

Galatians 6 CommentaryGal 6 Commentary Precept Austin

Word-by-word notes on sowing to the Spirit and the new creation in 6:15.

Galatians 6 - Barnes' NotesGal 6 - Barnes' Notes StudyLight

Clarifies the agricultural metaphor of sowing and reaping in verses 7-9.

Background & Word Study

Galatians 6:1 InterlinearGal 6:1 Interlinear BibleHub

Shows the Greek of Paul's charge to bear one another's burdens.

The Church Fathers

Galatians 6Gal 6 Catena

Patristic readings on boasting only in the cross and the new creation.

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