Galatians 5:22

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Summary

Galatians 5:22

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

The fruit

Goodness

Romans 15:14

Faith

1 Peter 5:12

General references

1 John 4:13

Bible References

The fruit

I mean this: Practice living by the Spirit and then by no means will you gratify the cravings of your lower nature.

"You must either make the tree healthy and its fruits healthy or make the tree sickly and its fruits sickly, for a tree is judged by its fruit.

And the portion of them falling among the thorns illustrates those who hear it, but as soon as they pass on they are choked out by the worries and wealth and pleasures of life, and thus yield no mature fruit.

If it bears figs in the future, well; but if not, you will have to cut it down.'"

He cuts away any branch on me that stops bearing fruit, and He repeatedly prunes every branch that continues to bear fruit, to make it bear more.

But now, since you have been freed from sin and have become the slaves of God, the immediate result is consecration, and the final destiny is eternal life.

So, my brothers, you too in the body of Christ have ended your relation to the law, so that you may be married to another husband, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God.

for the product of light consists in practicing everything that is good and right and true;

men that are abounding in the fruits of right-doing with the help of Jesus Christ, to the honor and praise of God.

so that you may lead lives worthy of the Lord to His full satisfaction, by perennially bearing fruit in every good enterprise and by a steady growth in fuller knowledge of God;

Goodness

As far as I am concerned about you, my brothers, I am convinced that you especially are abounding in the highest goodness, richly supplied with perfect knowledge and competent to counsel one another.

Faith

It bears up under anything; it exercises faith in everything; it keeps up hope in everything; it gives us power to endure in anything.

and that we may be delivered from unprincipled and wicked men; for not all men have faith.

The deaconesses too must be serious, not gossips; they must be temperate and perfectly trustworthy.

Let no one think little of you because you are young, but always set an example for believers, in speech, conduct, love, faith, and purity.

By Silvanus, our faithful brother, as I regard him, I have written you this short letter, to encourage you and to testify that this is the true, unmerited favor of God. Stand firm in it.

General references

If possible, so far as it depends on you, live in peace with everybody.

let everything be done in love.

he is the very one who told me of the love awakened in you by the Spirit.

You must let your brotherly love continue.

By the fact that He has given us a portion of His Spirit we can be sure that we remain in union with Him and He in union with us.