< Προς Γαλατας 6 >
1 Αδελφοί, και εάν άνθρωπος απερισκέπτως πέση εις κανέν αμάρτημα, σεις οι πνευματικοί διορθόνετε τον τοιούτον με πνεύμα πραότητος, προσέχων εις σεαυτόν, μη και συ πειρασθής.
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}.
2 Αλλήλων τα βάρη βαστάζετε και ούτως εκπληρώσατε τον νόμον του Χριστού.
[When there are ones who have] problems, you should help each other. By doing that, you will complete what Christ requires.
3 Διότι εάν τις νομίζη ότι είναι τι ενώ είναι μηδέν, εαυτόν εξαπατά.
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.
4 Αλλ' έκαστος ας εξετάζη το εαυτού έργον, και τότε εις εαυτόν μόνον θέλει έχει το καύχημα και ουχί εις τον άλλον·
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].
5 διότι έκαστος το εαυτού φορτίον θέλει βαστάσει.
Keep in mind that you must each perform your own [individual] tasks.
6 Ο δε κατηχούμενος τον λόγον ας κάμνη τον κατηχούντα μέτοχον εις πάντα τα αγαθά αυτού.
[You] who are being taught {whom others are teaching} [God’s truth] should share your various [material] things [EUP] with your teachers.
7 Μη πλανάσθε, ο Θεός δεν εμπαίζεται· επειδή ό, τι αν σπείρη ο άνθρωπος, τούτο και θέλει θερίσει·
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].
8 διότι ο σπείρων εις την σάρκα εαυτού θέλει θερίσει εκ της σαρκός φθοράν, αλλ' ο σπείρων εις το Πνεύμα θέλει θερίσει εκ του Πνεύματος ζωήν αιώνιον. (aiōnios )
[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 )
9 Ας μη αποκάμνωμεν δε πράττοντες το καλόν· διότι εάν δεν αποκάμνωμεν, θέλομεν θερίσει εν τω δέοντι καιρώ.
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].
10 Άρα λοιπόν ενόσω έχομεν καιρόν, ας εργαζώμεθα το καλόν προς πάντας, μάλιστα δε προς τους οικείους της πίστεως.
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.
11 Ίδετε πόσον μακράν επιστολήν σας έγραψα με την χείρα μου.
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:
12 Όσοι θέλουσι να αρέσκωσι κατά την σάρκα, ούτοι σας αναγκάζουσι να περιτέμνησθε, μόνον διά να μη διώκωνται διά τον σταυρόν του Χριστού.
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].
13 Διότι ουδέ οι περιτεμνόμενοι αυτοί φυλάττουσι τον νόμον· αλλά θέλουσι να περιτέμνησθε σεις, διά να έχωσι καύχησιν εις την σάρκα σας.
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.
14 Εις εμέ δε μη γένοιτο να καυχώμαι ειμή εις τον σταυρόν του Κυρίου ημών Ιησού Χριστού, διά του οποίου ο κόσμος εσταυρώθη ως προς εμέ και εγώ ως προς τον κόσμον.
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.
15 Διότι εν Χριστώ Ιησού ούτε περιτομή ισχύει τι ούτε ακροβυστία, αλλά νέα κτίσις.
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.
16 Και όσοι περιπατήσωσι κατά τον κανόνα τούτον, ειρήνη επ' αυτούς και έλεος, και επί τον Ισραήλ του Θεού.
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.
17 Εις το εξής μηδείς ας μη δίδη εις εμέ ενόχλησιν· διότι εγώ βαστάζω τα στίγματα του Κυρίου Ιησού εν τω σώματί μου.
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!
18 Η χάρις του Κυρίου ημών Ιησού Χριστού είη μετά του πνεύματος υμών, αδελφοί· αμήν.
My fellow believers, I pray that our Lord Jesus Christ will kindly accomplish what he desires within you. (Amen!/May it be so!)