MODERN LITERAL VERSION

6:1 Brethren, even if a man is overtaken in any trespass, you* who are spiritual, mend such a one in a spirit of meekness; noting any trespass in yourself that you might not also be tempted.
6:2 Bear the burdens of one another and thus fulfill the law of Christ.
6:3 For* if anyone thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he is deceiving himself.
6:4 But let each one test his own work and then he will have his boasting toward himself alone and not toward his neighbor.
6:5 For* each one will bear his own load.

6:6 But let him, who is instructed in the word, share with him who instructs in all good things.
6:7 Do not be misled. God is not ridiculed; for* whatever a man sows, he will also reap.
6:8 Because he who is sowing to his own flesh will reap corruption from the flesh, but he who is sowing to the Spirit will reap everlasting life from the Spirit.

6:9 Now do not be depressed while doing good; for* we will reap in time, if we do not faint.
6:10 Then* consequently, as we have opportunity, we should work what is good toward all men and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.

6:11 Behold, how-large the letters of the alphabet, I write to you* with my own hand.
6:12 As many as wish to have a good* countenance in the flesh, they are urging you* to be circumcised; only in order that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.
6:13 For* not even those who have been circumcised themselves keep the law, but they wish you* to be circumcised, that* they may boast in your* flesh.
6:14 But let it not happen for me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world has been crucified to me and I to the world.
6:15 For* in Christ Jesus neither any circumcision nor uncircumcision prevails, but a new creation.
6:16 And as many as will march by this standard*, peace be upon them and mercy and upon the Israel of God.

6:17 Furthermore let no one harass me, for* I bear the brands of the Lord Jesus on my body.

6:18 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your* spirit, brethren. Amen.