Galatians 6:4
Good News Translation
You should each judge your own conduct. If it is good, then you can be proud of what you yourself have done, without having to compare it with what someone else has done.

New Revised Standard Version
All must test their own work; then that work, rather than their neighbor’s work, will become a cause for pride.

Contemporary English Version
Do your own work well, and then you will have something to be proud of. But don't compare yourself with others.

New American Bible
Each one must examine his own work, and then he will have reason to boast with regard to himself alone, and not with regard to someone else;

Douay-Rheims Bible
But let every one prove his own work: and so he shall have glory in himself only and not in another.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But let every one prove his own work: and so he shall have glory in himself only and not in another.

prove.

Job 13:15 Although he should kill me, I will trust in him: but yet I will reprove my ways in his sight.

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Psalm 26:2 Prove me, O Lord, and try me; burn my reins and my heart.

1 Corinthians 11:28 But let a man prove himself: and so let him eat of that bread and drink of the chalice.

2 Corinthians 13:5 Try your own selves if you be in the faith: prove ye yourselves. Know you not your own selves, that Christ Jesus is in you, unless perhaps you be reprobates?

rejoicing.

Proverbs 14:14 A fool shall be filled with his own ways, and the good man shall be above him.

1 Corinthians 4:3,4 But to me it is a very small thing to be judged by you or by man's day. But neither do I judge my own self. . . .

2 Corinthians 1:12 For our glory is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity of heart and sincerity of God, and not in carnal wisdom, but in the grace of God, we have conversed in this world: and more abundantly towards you.

1 John 3:19-22 In this we know that we are of the truth and in his sight shall persuade our hearts. . . .

and not.

Galatians 6:13 For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law: but they will have you to be circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.

Luke 18:11 The Pharisee standing, prayed thus with himself: O God, I give thee thanks that I am not as the rest of men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, as also is this publican.

1 Corinthians 1:12,13 Now this I say, that every one of you saith: I indeed am of Paul; and I am of Apollo; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ. . . .

1 Corinthians 3:21-23 Let no man therefore glory in men. . . .

1 Corinthians 4:6,7 But these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollo, for your sakes: that in us you may learn that one be not puffed up against the other for another, above that which is written. . . .

2 Corinthians 11:12,13 But what I do, that I will do: that I may cut off the occasion from them that desire occasion: that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we. . . .

Context
Carry One Another's Burdens
3For if any man think himself to be some thing, whereas he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. 4But let every one prove his own work: and so he shall have glory in himself only and not in another. 5For every one shall bear his own burden.…
Cross References
1 Corinthians 3:8
Now he that planteth and he that watereth, are one. And every man shall receive his own reward, according to his own labour.

1 Corinthians 3:14
If any man's work abide, which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.

1 Corinthians 11:28
But let a man prove himself: and so let him eat of that bread and drink of the chalice.

Philippians 1:26
That your rejoicing may abound in Christ Jesus for me, by my coming to you again.

Galatians 6:3
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