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}.
Liebe Brüder! Wenn einer in der Übereilung einen Fehltritt tut, dann weist ihn, die ihr Geistesmänner seid, im Geiste der Sanftmut zurecht. Doch achte dabei auf dich selbst, damit nicht auch du in Versuchung kommst.
2 [When there are ones who have] problems, you should help each other. By doing that, you will complete what Christ requires.
Der eine trage die Last des anderen. Also erfüllt ihr das Gesetz Christi.
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.
Denn wer sich schmeichelt, er habe etwas zu bedeuten, während er doch nichts ist, betrügt sich selbst.
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].
Jeder prüfe nur sein eigenes Handeln, dann wird er seinen Ruhm für sich behalten und andere damit verschonen.
5 Keep in mind that you must each perform your own [individual] tasks.
Hat doch ein jeder an seiner eigenen Last zu tragen.
6 [You] who are being taught {whom others are teaching} [God’s truth] should share your various [material] things [EUP] with your teachers.
Wer in der Lehre Unterricht erhält, der soll dem Lehrer Teil an all seiner Habe geben.
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].
Täuscht euch nicht: Gott läßt seiner nicht spotten. Was der Mensch sät, wird er ernten.
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)
Wer auf sein Fleisch sät, wird vom Fleische Verderben ernten; wer aber auf den Geist sät, wird vom Geiste das ewige Leben ernten. (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].
Laßt uns im Gutestun nicht müde werden! Denn schließlich werden wir doch einmal ernten, wenn wir nicht nachlassen.
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.
So lasset uns denn allen Gutes tun, solange wir noch Gelegenheit dazu haben, besonders aber unseren Glaubensgenossen.
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:
Seht, mit was für großen Buchstaben ich euch eigenhändig schreibe.
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].
Alle, die bei den Menschen eine Rolle spielen möchten, wollen euch die Beschneidung aufnötigen, nur damit sie um des Kreuzes Christi willen nicht verfolgt werden.
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.
Und dabei halten sie, obwohl beschnitten, nicht einmal selber das Gesetz. Nur deshalb wollen sie euch ja beschneiden, damit sie sich mit eurem Fleische rühmen können.
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.
Mir aber sei es ferne, mich zu rühmen, es sei denn im Kreuz unseres Herrn Jesus Christus. Durch ihn ist mir die Welt gekreuzigt und ich der Welt.
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.
Denn in Christus Jesus weder die Beschneidung noch das Unbeschnittensein hat Wert, vielmehr nur eine Neuschöpfung.
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.
Über alle, die nach diesem Grundsatz wandeln, komme Friede und Erbarmen und über das Israel Gottes.
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!
In Zukunft mache mir keiner Unannehmlichkeiten; ich trage ja die Male des Herrn Jesu an meinem Leibe.
18 My fellow believers, I pray that our Lord Jesus Christ will kindly accomplish what he desires within you. (Amen!/May it be so!)
Die Gnade unseres Herrn Jesus Christus sei mit eurem Geiste, liebe Brüder. Amen.
