Christians must help each other
1 My friends, if you see that someone among you is doing something wrong, you must warn them. Those of you who have God's Spirit should warn that person. Show them how to live in a good way. But you must be kind and patient with them. Be very careful yourselves, so that it does not cause you to do wrong things too. 2 Help each other when someone has problems. If you do that, you will be obeying Christ's rule. 3 You must not think that you are too important to help other people. If you are not really so important, you are deceiving yourself.
6:2Christ gave this rule to his disciples: ‘Love each other.’ See John 13:34-35. 4 Everyone should think carefully about the things that they themselves do. If those things are good, that is a reason to be proud. Someone like that does not need to think about whether they are better than anyone else. 5 Each person must live in a way that they know is right for them.
6 Everyone who is learning about God's message should share all his good things with his teacher.
7 Do not deceive yourselves. Nobody can make God seem foolish. Think about a farmer who plants seeds in his field. The same kind of crops will grow as the seeds which he plants. That will be his harvest. 8 It is the same in our lives. A person may do the things that please his own human nature. The harvest from their human nature will be punishment and death. Or a person may do the things that please God's Spirit. The harvest from God's Spirit will be life with God for ever. 9 We must not become tired as we do things that are good. We must not become so weak that we stop. Then we will receive a good harvest at the proper time. 10 Because of this, we must help everyone when we have the chance. Certainly we must do good things to help our friends who believe in Christ, as we do.
