And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.
Well-doing means acts of kindness toward our neighbors, not merely duty. We grow cold through ungrateful recipients, endless needs, and the world's hindrances; Paul rightly commands us not to relax. Whoever does not persevere resembles an idle farmer who sows but abandons the field, the fruit comes only to those who press forward to the end.
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The apostle having, in the foregoing chapter, exhorted Christians by love to serve one another (Gal 6:13), and also cautioned us (Gal 6:16) against a temper which, if indulged, would hinder us from showing the mutual love and serviceableness which he had recommended, in the beginning of this chapter he proceeds to give some further directions, which, if duly observed, would both promote the one...
Commenting on Galatians 6:1-10
Do good to all men whenever ability and occasion permit, strangers, enemies, every nation. Yet the household of faith, believers who hold the doctrine and confess Christ, deserve our particular care and liberality, as they are God's own family.
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