Galatians 5 good news bible
Here is Galatians 5 in the Good News Bible (GNB):
Galatians 5
1 It is absolutely clear that God has called you to live a life of goodness as his dear children. But it was not just for a short time that Christ died. God's plan is for you to be holy, and he is counting on you to use your freedom to serve each other in love.
2 For the whole law can be summed up in one command: "Love your neighbor as yourself." But if you are always trying to obey all the rules, you are under a curse, because the more you try to obey, the more you will realize how much you are failing.
3 But Christ has set us free. This means we are free to serve each other, not to obey rules. So let's stop trying to be good enough by following rules, and instead, let's use our freedom to serve each other in love.
4 For the whole law is summed up in one command: "Love your neighbor as yourself." But if you are always trying to obey all the rules, you are under a curse, because the more you try to obey, the more you will realize how much you are failing.
5 But Christ has set us free. This means we are free to serve each other, not to obey rules. So let's stop trying to be good enough by following rules, and instead, let's use our freedom to serve each other in love.
6 For in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. What counts is a new creation.
7 And all of us who have been baptized into Christ have been united with him in his death. We were buried with him so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glorious power of the Father, we too might live a new life.
8 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be raised to life with him.
9 For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin—
10 because anyone who has died has been set free from sin.
11 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.
12 For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him.
13 The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.
14 In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
15 So then, sin will not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.
16 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!
17 You used to offer yourselves as slaves to impurity and to greater and greater wickedness, so they become so evil that they are at enmity with whatever is good.
18 But now you must give yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life, and give your bodies to him to be used to do what is right.
19 When you follow the desires of your sinful nature, the results are very clear: sexual immorality, impurity, lustful pleasures,
20 idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions
21 and envy, drunkenness, wild parties, and envy, which is like idolatry.
22 But now, by putting away that old self with its practices,
23 and that you have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.
24 And there is no law that can condemn us for what we do in Christ Jesus.
25 Since we have been put right with God by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
26 Through him we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of sharing his glory.
27 But if we are going to boast, we must boast about the things God has done, not about the things we have done.
28 For God, who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God's glory displayed in the face of Christ.
29 But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us.
30 We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair;
31 persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.
32 We always carry around in our bodies the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our bodies.
33 For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that his life may also be revealed in our mortal bodies.
34 So then, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation—but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it.
35 For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live.
36 For this is the will of God, your sanctification: to keep you for himself.
37 Therefore, brothers and sisters, join with others in following my example. Then take note of those who live by example and warn the disorderly.
38 For some have no self-control and have given up following the truth.
39 But you, my friends, are controlled by the Spirit. You have no self-control and have given up following the truth.
40 If someone is caught in a sin, you who live by the Spirit should restore that person gently. But watch yourselves, or you also may be tempted.
41 Give yourselves to God, and he will make you new. Then you will be able to do the things that please him.
42 So let us stop trying to follow the rules and regulations set by man. Let us keep our eyes fixed on Jesus, the one who began the new life within us. He is the one who made the way for us to come to God.
43 For it is Jesus who gives us the power to live a new life, and it is he who makes us holy. He is the one who brings us to God.
44 And so, my friends, I appeal to you by the mercy of God to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual act of worship.
45 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
46 For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God.
47 You did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave to fear again, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, "Abba, Father!"
48 The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children.
49 Now that we are children, we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.
50 I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.
51 For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.
52 For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope
53 that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.
54 We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.
55 Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons and daughters, the redemption of our bodies.
56 For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is no hope, for who hopes for what they already have?
57 But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.
58 And so we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.