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Galatians 6:9

加拉太书 6:9

The Passage

Let's not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season if we don't give up.

In the other language

我们行善，不可丧志；若不灰心，到了时候就要收成。

Theme

Perseverance

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Many readers arrive here from a real question. These are reflections for how this passage speaks to the questions people bring most often — not an answer about what will happen, but an invitation to sit with it slowly.

How do I face this season of pressure at work?

This is a verse for the long middle, when the work is faithful and the results are not visible. Paul names the exact failure mode: not catastrophe, but weariness in doing good — the slow leak that ends in giving up. He does not promise a harvest this week, only that there is a season for reaping and that quitting is what prevents it. This passage offers no workplace plan. Which part of your work pressure makes it hardest for you to keep doing good without seeing results yet?

Carry thisThe harvest has its own timing; weariness is not the signal.

Other passages for this questionGenesis 1:26-28 · Isaiah 41:10 · 1 Corinthians 7:3-4

I want to learn to love better in this relationship.

Weariness can enter even a relationship you deeply value. This passage encourages perseverance in doing good, though it does not specify how to resolve your particular difficulties. Its image of harvest gives goodness a horizon beyond immediate recognition; it is not a guarantee that another person will change or that a relationship will last. For you, doing good might mean listening again, making a needed apology, or keeping a boundary without cruelty. Perseverance is not repeating whatever causes harm. It is staying attentive to what is genuinely good, even when you are tired. In what way could you persevere in doing good without repeating what causes harm, knowing that this passage does not resolve your particular relationship difficulties?

Carry thisDoing good is not the same as securing a response.

Other passages for this questionGenesis 1:26-28 · Isaiah 41:10 · 1 Corinthians 7:3-4

What do I need to let go of in the coming weeks?

This verse does not name what you need to let go of, but it offers room to consider what is making faithful goodness feel so heavy. You may be carrying not only the work itself, but also the demand to see results quickly or to know that your efforts are appreciated. Perseverance need not mean holding tightly to every expectation; you can keep doing good while releasing your grip on the timing of its fruit. Bring that distinction into a quiet moment with God, without forcing an answer. Weariness can blur the difference between faithful effort and unnecessary pressure; what burden could you release while continuing to do good?

Carry thisSlow results do not make a good thing worthless.

Other passages for this questionGenesis 1:26-28 · Isaiah 41:10 · 1 Corinthians 7:3-4

How can I find stillness in a busy life?

Doing good can be tiring, and this verse makes room to name that weariness. It does not directly teach a practice of stillness; its concern is perseverance and the harvest it describes as coming in due season. That image places a limit on urgency: faithful effort and immediate results are not the same thing. You need not turn the verse into a demand to keep moving without rest. In a busy life, a quiet pause can be a place to notice why you are continuing, and whether impatience has begun to shape your service. This verse does not teach a practice of stillness. How much of your busyness comes from needing immediate results rather than allowing good work its due season?

Carry thisFaithful effort and immediate results are not the same.

Other passages for this questionGenesis 1:26-28 · Isaiah 41:10 · 1 Corinthians 7:3-4

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Galatians 6 — in context

3For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

4But let each man test his own work, and then he will take pride in himself and not in his neighbor.

5For each man will bear his own burden.

6But let him who is taught in the word share all good things with him who teaches.

7Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

8For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

9Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

10So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.

11See with what large letters I write to you with my own hand.

12As many as desire to look good in the flesh, they compel you to be circumcised; only that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.

13For even they who receive circumcision don’t keep the law themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh.

14But far be it from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

15For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.

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