Galatians 6 · a question people ask
"Bear one another’s burdens" (6:2), and "each man will bear his own burden" (6:5). Which is it?
The chapter says both, and the WEB has bear in both. 6:2 tells the readers what to do, and what doing it fulfills: "Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ." (6:2). 6:5 says what will be, of each man: "For each man will bear his own burden." (6:5). Between them come "For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself." (6:3) and "But let each man examine his own work, and then he will have reason to boast in himself, and not in someone else." (6:4), and 6:5's For follows them. The chapter doesn't say more about how the two sayings go together, and these notes don't either. They quote both as the WEB has them, and set no other verse beside them.
The verses
“Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself. But let each man examine his own work, and then he will have reason to boast in himself, and not in someone else. For each man will bear his own burden.”