“But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.”
Each of you should test your own work and then you can take pride in yourself alone, without comparing yourself to somebody else, — believers are called to 'dokimazō' (test, examine) their 'idion ergon' (own work), validating their labor independently rather than through comparison ('analogia' — relation to another); this cultivates honest self-assessment.
Church Fathers on Galatians 6:4
“But let each man prove his own work.” Here he shows that we ought to be scrutinizers of our lives, and this not lightly, but carefully to weigh our actions; as for example, if you have performed a good deed, consider whether it was not from vain glory, or through necessity, or malevolence, or with hypocrisy, or from some other human motive. For as gold appears to be bright before it is placed in the furnace, but when committed to the fire, is closely proved, and all that is…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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