I have a beautiful fruit of the Spirit Bible- a study in cultivating the fruit in your daily life.
The Fruit of the Holy Spirit is a biblical term that sums up the nine visible attributes of a true Christian life written of by Paul in his Letter to the Galatians chapter 5.
Throughout the Bible, the righteous are likened to trees,[SUP][Prov. 11:30][/SUP] and in Galatians 5 Paul explains what fruit a righteous tree bears. Accordingly, this "fruit" is grown by those who have truly repented and become followers of Jesus.[SUP][Matt. 3:8][/SUP] It is arguable whether one who does not bear this fruit is truly a Christian. In John's account of the Gospel, Jesus said, "These things I command you, that you love one another",[SUP][John 15:17][/SUP] referred to as the New Commandment or the second greatest commandment. Paul illustrates with these attributes the kind of love that marks a true Christian life:
Catholic tradition lists 12 fruits: charity, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, generosity, gentleness, faithfulness, modesty, self-control, chastity.[SUP][3][/SUP] The Douay-Rheims translation lists them as charity, joy, peace, patience, benignity, goodness, longanimity, mildness, faith, modesty, continency, chastity.[SUP][Gal. 5:22-23][/SUP]
Immediately before he illustrates Christ-like "love-one-another" love, author Paul issues a stern warning in presenting partial list of what he termed "acts of the flesh" which he labels as "obvious":
The Fruit of the Holy Spirit is a biblical term that sums up the nine visible attributes of a true Christian life written of by Paul in his Letter to the Galatians chapter 5.
Throughout the Bible, the righteous are likened to trees,[SUP][Prov. 11:30][/SUP] and in Galatians 5 Paul explains what fruit a righteous tree bears. Accordingly, this "fruit" is grown by those who have truly repented and become followers of Jesus.[SUP][Matt. 3:8][/SUP] It is arguable whether one who does not bear this fruit is truly a Christian. In John's account of the Gospel, Jesus said, "These things I command you, that you love one another",[SUP][John 15:17][/SUP] referred to as the New Commandment or the second greatest commandment. Paul illustrates with these attributes the kind of love that marks a true Christian life:
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
—Galatians 5:22-23
The 9 Fruits are coming from the Holy Spirit and not from the Christian. The word Spirit is a capital S which is referring to the Holy Spirit and not the human spirit. The Fruit of the Holy Spirit are God's divine personality and character traits that are worked in over time into the Christian human spirit.[SUP][2][/SUP]—Galatians 5:22-23
Catholic tradition lists 12 fruits: charity, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, generosity, gentleness, faithfulness, modesty, self-control, chastity.[SUP][3][/SUP] The Douay-Rheims translation lists them as charity, joy, peace, patience, benignity, goodness, longanimity, mildness, faith, modesty, continency, chastity.[SUP][Gal. 5:22-23][/SUP]
Immediately before he illustrates Christ-like "love-one-another" love, author Paul issues a stern warning in presenting partial list of what he termed "acts of the flesh" which he labels as "obvious":
sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like.
—Galatians 5:19-21 This is the fruit of the enemy/ devil. Lust is the counterfeit/ opposite of love and it is another fruit of the enemy.
—Galatians 5:19-21 This is the fruit of the enemy/ devil. Lust is the counterfeit/ opposite of love and it is another fruit of the enemy.