for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth.
Parallel translations
- WEB for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,
- KJV (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)
- NKJV (for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth),
- NASB (for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth),
- NLT For this light within you produces only what is good and right and true.
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The light produces fruit consisting of all goodness, righteousness, and truth. A transformed life shows visible moral fruit.
Overview
Paul describes the practical effect of being light: it bears fruit in goodness, righteousness, and truth. These qualities reflect God's own character and the Spirit's work in the believer. Genuine spiritual life is evidenced not by mere profession but by such moral fruit.
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Cross-references · 16
- Gal 5:22–23But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
- 3 Jn 1:11Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. The one who does good is of God; the one who does evil has not seen God.
- 1 Jn 3:9–10Anyone born of God refuses to practice sin, because God’s seed abides in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God.
- Rom 15:14I myself am convinced, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, brimming with knowledge, and able to instruct one another.
- Eph 6:14Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness arrayed,
- 1 Tim 6:11But you, O man of God, flee from these things and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness.
- Phil 1:11filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
- Ps 16:2–3I said to the LORD, “You are my Lord; apart from You I have no good thing.”
- 1 Pet 2:24–25He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. “By His stripes you are healed.”
- Heb 11:33who through faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice, and gained what was promised; who shut the mouths of lions,
- Rom 2:4Or do you disregard the riches of His kindness, tolerance, and patience, not realizing that God’s kindness leads you to repentance?
- Eph 4:15Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Christ Himself, who is the head.
- 1 Jn 2:29If you know that He is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of Him.
- Eph 4:25Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to his neighbor, for we are all members of one another.
- John 1:47When Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, He said of him, “Here is a true Israelite, in whom there is no deceit.”
- Heb 1:8But about the Son He says: “Your throne, O God, endures forever and ever, and justice is the scepter of Your kingdom.
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