Galatians 6:6
New International Version
Nevertheless, the one who receives instruction in the word should share all good things with their instructor.

New Living Translation
Those who are taught the word of God should provide for their teachers, sharing all good things with them.

English Standard Version
Let the one who is taught the word share all good things with the one who teaches.

Berean Standard Bible
Nevertheless, the one who receives instruction in the word must share in all good things with his instructor.

Berean Literal Bible
Now let the one being taught in the word share in all good things with the one teaching.

King James Bible
Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things.

New King James Version
Let him who is taught the word share in all good things with him who teaches.

New American Standard Bible
The one who is taught the word is to share all good things with the one who teaches him.

NASB 1995
The one who is taught the word is to share all good things with the one who teaches him.

NASB 1977
And let the one who is taught the word share all good things with him who teaches.

Legacy Standard Bible
And the one who is instructed in the word is to share in all good things with the one who instructs him.

Amplified Bible
The one who is taught the word [of God] is to share all good things with his teacher [contributing to his spiritual and material support].

Christian Standard Bible
Let the one who is taught the word share all his good things with the teacher.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The one who is taught the message must share all his good things with the teacher.

American Standard Version
But let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And let him who hears the word share in all good things with him who preaches to him.

Contemporary English Version
Share every good thing you have with anyone who teaches you what God has said.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And let him that is instructed in the word, communicate to him that instructeth him, in all good things.

English Revised Version
But let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The person who is taught God's word should share all good things with his teacher.

Good News Translation
If you are being taught the Christian message, you should share all the good things you have with your teacher.

International Standard Version
The person who is taught the word should share all his goods with his teacher.

Literal Standard Version
And let him who is instructed in the word share with him who is instructing in all good things.

Majority Standard Bible
Nevertheless, the one who receives instruction in the word must share in all good things with his instructor.

New American Bible
One who is being instructed in the word should share all good things with his instructor.

NET Bible
Now the one who receives instruction in the word must share all good things with the one who teaches it.

New Revised Standard Version
Those who are taught the word must share in all good things with their teacher.

New Heart English Bible
But let him who is taught in the word share all good things with him who teaches.

Webster's Bible Translation
Let him that is taught in the word communicate to him that teacheth in all good things.

Weymouth New Testament
But let those who receive instruction in Christian truth share with their instructors all temporal blessings.

World English Bible
But let him who is taught in the word share all good things with him who teaches.

Young's Literal Translation
And let him who is instructed in the word share with him who is instructing -- in all good things.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Carry One Another's Burdens
5For each one should carry his own load. 6Nevertheless, the one who receives instruction in the word must share in all good things with his instructor. 7Do not be deceived: God is not to be mocked. Whatever a man sows, he will reap in return.…

Cross References
Luke 1:4
so that you may know the certainty of the things you have been taught.

1 Corinthians 9:11
If we have sown spiritual seed among you, is it too much for us to reap a material harvest from you?

1 Corinthians 9:14
In the same way, the Lord has prescribed that those who preach the gospel should receive their living from the gospel.

2 Timothy 4:2
Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and encourage with every form of patient instruction.


Treasury of Scripture

Let him that is taught in the word communicate to him that teaches in all good things.

Deuteronomy 12:19
Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest upon the earth.

Matthew 10:10
Nor scrip for your journey, neither two coats, neither shoes, nor yet staves: for the workman is worthy of his meat.

Romans 15:27
It hath pleased them verily; and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister unto them in carnal things.

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Galatians 6
1. He moves them to deal mildly with a brother who has slipped,
2. and to bear one another's burden;
6. to be generous to their teachers,
9. and not weary of well-doing.
12. He shows what they intend that preach circumcision.
14. He glories in nothing, save in the cross of Christ.














(6-10) Special exhortation to liberality in the support of teachers, grounded upon the fact that we shall all receive, in the harvest at the end of the world, according as we have sown during the time of our probation here. The self-indulgent will find the flesh that he has indulged fall to dissolution, and there will be an end. On the other hand, he who in all his actions has sought the approval of the Spirit shall be rewarded with everlasting life. The same rule holds good for every kind of beneficence. Let us do what good we can, whenever an opportunity is given us, especially towards our fellow Christians.

(6) Him that is taught in the word.--He who receives instruction in the truths of the gospel. Even at this early date there seems to have been a more or less organised system of instruction in the Church. Teaching was regarded as a separate function, though those who took part in it do not seem as yet to have formed a separate class. See Acts 13:1; Romans 12:7; 1Corinthians 12:28-29; Ephesians 4:11; James 3:1 ("masters" should be rather "teachers"). The teacher was dependent on the alms of his scholars. . . .

Verse 6. - Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things (κοινωνείτω δὲ ὁ κατηχούμενος τὸν λόγον τῷ κατηχοῦντι ἐν πᾶσιν ἀγαθοῖς); let him that is receiving instruction in the Word share with him that instructeth in all good things. The Authorized Version appears to have exercised sound discretion in leaving the particle δὲ untranslated. It is, in fact, here merely a conjunction of transition: not in any degree adversative; for the exhortation to liberality towards our teachers is perfectly germane to the preceding topics of carrying one another's loads, and so carrying our own pack. The verb κατηχεῖν, etymologically "to fill with sound," thence signifies "to din a thing into another person's mind with inculcation or constant repetition," in which sense it occurs in Acts 21:21, 24, of the persistent repetition of a slanderous report. So early as in Hippocrates (Liddell and Scott) the verbal substantive κατήχησις is used for "instruction;" and the verb, though not occurring in Attic writers, seems to have continued in use in other dialects, to reappear at length in the Common Dialect of Greek. Accordingly, it is found in the sense of "instruct" in Luke 1:4; Acts 18:25; Romans 2:18; 1 Corinthians 14:19. It does not denote instruction by question and answer in particular, but simply the inculcating of knowledge. Recently as the Galatian Churches had been founded, it appears from this passage that there were already persons among them whose particular business it was to give religious instruction to their fellow-Christians; so much their business, that they were on this ground entitled to receive from those they taught liberal help in temporal things. Such persons were doubtless included among the "elders" whom Paul and Barnabas appointed in the several Churches which they planted (Acts 14:23). It is noticeable, further, that the order of men alone singled out as entitled to such secular assistance is characterized as a teaching order; so characterized, per-hops, because teaching religious truth was the most prominent and characteristic of their functions. In his First Epistle to Timothy (1 Timothy 5:17), written, probably, some years later, "the elders who labour in Word and teaching (διδασκαλία)" are particularized as those among the "presiding elders" who are the "most especially" entitled to liberal payment; the form of expression, however, implying that elders whose function lay in other duties than that of teaching were likewise entitled to liberal consideration. The teaching elders would require, more than other Church officers, leisure from worldly avocations for the study of God's Word and his truth, and for the actual discharge of their especial work in private as well as in public (comp. Acts 6:4; Acts 20:20). The direction here given would apply, as to the case of resident teachers, so also to that of persons who travelled about in the dissemination of the faith; as we learn from 1 Corinthians 9:4-14; 2 Corinthians 11:7-12. In 1 Thessalonians 5:12, 13 the apostle commends to the "high estimation" of the disciples "those who laboured among them, and were ever them in the Lord, and admonished them (κοπιῶντας προι'σταμένους νουθετοῦντας); The expression "the Word" is used without any further qualification to designate the Christian doctrine, as in Mark 2:2; Mark 4:14; Acts 8:4; Acts 11:19; Philippians 1:14. So the Christian religion is styled "the Way" in Acts 9:2; Acts 19:9. "Share;' the verb κοινωνεῖν and its derivatives are frequently used with reference to that kind of "fellowship" or "partnership" which is evinced by our liberally sharing with the object of it in our worldly means. If we "count a minister our partner (κοινενόν)," as St. Paul writes to Philemon (ver. 17), we shall not begrudge him frank and generous help in any direction. Thus Romans 12:13, "Communicating to the necessities of saints," is properly "sharing with them in generous sympathy." So Philippians 4:14, "had fellowship with (συγκοιήσαντες) my affliction" points to liberal temporal assistance. Similarly, generous sympathy embodied in money gifts is styled "communion," or "partnership," in Romans 15:26; 2 Corinthians 9:13; Philippians 1:5; Hebrews 13:16; as also κοινωνικός, "ready to communicate," expresses one ready to show such sympathy, in 1 Timothy 6:18. The apostle regards, and would have others regard, such offices of kindness with a fine delicate feeling, not as giving as if from a higher level of condition, but as sharing with brothers, with whom all things are held in common. Chrysostom and others consider the word to point to an interchange or barter of goods, spiritual and temporal, referring to 1 Corinthians 9:11. "In all good things;" in all good things of this life which he himself possesses. "Good things" as in Luke 12:18, 19 ("my goods"); Luke 16:25; the preposition "in," as in Matthew 23:30, "partakers in the blood of the prophets." The exact import of this clause, which has been variously interpreted, is best appreciated by our taking account of the warmth of indignant feeling with which the apostle is writing. This clearly transpires both from the words, "be not deceived," and from the assurance, "God is not mocked." The apostle had evidently in his eye a certain course of conduct which he indignantly denounces as a "sneering at God." This feeling prompts him to accentuate his exhortation addressed to the cold-hearted, stingy Christians whom he has in view, by adding this clause, which is in effect, "in every possible way;" namely, by giving them respect and good will as well as maintenance. To no other Church does he address such direct admonition respecting the liberal treatment of its teachers, though, perhaps, indirect admonition may be detected in 1 Corinthians 9:7-11. No doubt the news he had just heard from Galatia made him feel the necessity of dealing with them roundly on this point.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
However,
δὲ (de)
Conjunction
Strong's 1161: A primary particle; but, and, etc.

the one who
(ho)
Article - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

receives instruction
κατηχούμενος (katēchoumenos)
Verb - Present Participle Middle or Passive - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 2727: To instruct orally, teach, inform. From kata and echos; to sound down into the ears, i.e. to indoctrinate or to apprise of.

in the
τὸν (ton)
Article - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

word
λόγον (logon)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3056: From lego; something said; by implication, a topic, also reasoning or motive; by extension, a computation; specially, the Divine Expression.

must share
Κοινωνείτω (Koinōneitō)
Verb - Present Imperative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 2841: From koinonos; to share with others.

in
ἐν (en)
Preposition
Strong's 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc.

all
πᾶσιν (pasin)
Adjective - Dative Neuter Plural
Strong's 3956: All, the whole, every kind of. Including all the forms of declension; apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole.

good things
ἀγαθοῖς (agathois)
Adjective - Dative Neuter Plural
Strong's 18: A primary word; 'good'.

with [his]
τῷ (tō)
Article - Dative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

instructor.
κατηχοῦντι (katēchounti)
Verb - Present Participle Active - Dative Masculine Singular
Strong's 2727: To instruct orally, teach, inform. From kata and echos; to sound down into the ears, i.e. to indoctrinate or to apprise of.


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