Galatians 6
1 My fellow believers, if [you] discover that a person [among your congregation] is sinning, [those of] you whom [God’s] Spirit [is directing and empowering] should gently correct that person. [Furthermore, each of] you [who corrects another person should] be very cautious in order that you might not [sin like that when] you are tempted {[when something] tempts you}.
Broeders, indien ook een mens vervallen ware door enige misdaad, gij, die geestelijk zijt, brengt den zodanige te recht met den geest der zachtmoedigheid; ziende op uzelven, opdat ook gij niet verzocht wordt.
2 [When there are ones who have] problems, you should help each other. By doing that, you will complete what Christ requires.
Draagt elkanders lasten, en vervult alzo de wet van Christus.
3 Keep in mind that those who [refuse to help others because they think that they are more important than other people, although they are] not really more important, are deceiving themselves.
Want zo iemand meent iets te zijn, daar hij niets is, die bedriegt zichzelven in zijn gemoed.
4 Instead, each [of you] should [constantly] test/judge [and decide if you can approve what you yourself are doing and thinking]. Then you can boast because of what you yourself [are doing and thinking], and not because what you are doing is superior to what other persons [are doing].
Maar een iegelijk beproeve zijn eigen werk; en alsdan zal hij aan zichzelven alleen roem hebben, en niet aan een anderen.
5 Keep in mind that you must each perform your own [individual] tasks.
Want een iegelijk zal zijn eigen pak dragen.
6 [You] who are being taught {whom others are teaching} [God’s truth] should share your various [material] things [EUP] with your teachers.
En die onderwezen wordt in het Woord, dele mede van alle goederen dengene, die hem onderwijst.
7 You should not deceive yourselves. [Remember that] God is never outwitted {no one ever fools God}. [Just like] a farmer will reap exactly the kind [of crop that] he plants [MET], [God will reward people according to what they have done] [MET].
Dwaalt niet; God laat Zich niet bespotten; want zo wat de mens zaait, dat zal hij ook maaien.
8 [God] will punish eternally those who do what their self-directed natures urge them to do. But those who please [God’s] Spirit will live forever [with God] because of what [God’s] Spirit does for them. (aiōnios g166)
Want die in zijn eigen vlees zaait, zal uit het vlees verderfenis maaien; maar die in den Geest zaait, zal uit den Geest het eeuwige leven maaien. (aiōnios g166)
9 But we should not (tire of/become discouraged while) doing what pleases God, because [eventually], at the time [that God] has determined, we will receive a reward [MET], if we do not stop [doing the good things that we have been doing].
Doch laat ons, goed doende, niet vertragen; want te zijner tijd zullen wij maaien, zo wij niet verslappen.
10 So, whenever we have opportunities, we should do [what is] good to all people. But especially we should do what is good to all our fellow believers.
Zo dan, terwijl wij tijd hebben, laat ons goed doen aan allen, maar meest aan de huisgenoten des geloofs.
11 I am now writing this last part of this letter to you in my own handwriting. Notice the large letters with which I am now writing. I am doing this in order that I might emphasize this:
Ziet, hoe groten brief ik u geschreven heb met mijn hand.
12 Some Jewish believers are trying to force you to perform certain rituals so that other Jews will think highly of them. They are insisting that you be circumcised {that someone must circumcise you}. They are doing that only in order that other Jews would no longer (persecute them/cause them to suffer) for proclaiming that God will save us because of our trusting in what Christ accomplished when he died on the cross [MTY, MET].
Al degenen, die een schoon gelaat willen tonen naar het vlees, die noodzaken u besneden te worden, alleenlijk opdat zij vanwege het kruis van Christus niet zouden vervolgd worden.
13 The reason that I say that is that the ones who are insisting that you be circumcised {that someone circumcise you} do not themselves fully obey the laws that God gave to Moses. Instead, they desire that you let someone circumcise you in order that they might boast to those Jews who would (persecute them/cause them to suffer) that you did that because they insisted [MTY] that you do it.
Want ook zijzelven, die besneden worden, houden de wet niet; maar zij willen, dat gij besneden wordt, opdat zij in uw vlees roemen zouden.
14 I myself, however, strongly desire that I never boast about anything like that. The only thing I will boast about is what our Lord Jesus Christ accomplished by dying on the cross [MTY]. Because of what Christ did on the cross, I no longer am interested in the things that those who do not trust Christ [MTY] think are important, and those people are no longer interested in the things that I [MET] think are important.
Maar het zij verre van mij, dat ik zou roemen, anders dan in het kruis van onzen Heere Jezus Christus; door Welken de wereld mij gekruisigd is, en ik der wereld.
15 I will boast about Christ dying on the cross because God is concerned neither that people are circumcised nor that people are not circumcised. Instead, he is concerned only that people conduct their lives in a completely new way.
Want in Christus Jezus heeft noch besnijdenis enige kracht, noch voorhuid, maar een nieuw schepsel.
16 I pray that God will give inner peace and act kindly towards all who will act according to this new way of life. It is all those who live according to this new way of life who are now truly God’s people [MET], as the Israeli people were God’s people previously.
En zovelen als er naar dezen regel zullen wandelen, over dezelve zal zijn vrede en barmhartigheid, en over het Israel Gods.
17 Finally, I say that people have persecuted me/caused me to suffer for declaring the truth about Jesus, and as a result I have scars on my body. Your new teachers do not have scars like mine! So do not trouble/bother me about these matters again!
Voorts, niemand doe mij moeite aan; want ik draag de littekenen van den Heere Jezus in mijn lichaam.
18 My fellow believers, I pray that our Lord Jesus Christ will kindly accomplish what he desires within you. (Amen!/May it be so!)
De genade van onzen Heere Jezus Christus zij met uw geest, broeders! Amen.
