Ephesians 5:9

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God,

In all things be showing yourself an example of good works. In your teaching, be showing integrity, seriousness, incorruptibility,

He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that produces its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.

Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.

You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,

The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. He who is wise wins souls.

He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on his head. He put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a mantle.

That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

They will still produce fruit in old age. They will be full of sap and green,

“Let your waist be dressed and your lamps burning.

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see God’s Kingdom.”

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,

Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might produce fruit to God.

Having regard for honorable things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober minded, fair, holy, self-controlled,

as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.

My God has sent his angel, and has shut the lions’ mouths, and they have not hurt me; because as before him innocence was found in me; and also before you, O king, I have done no harm.”

and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever. There will be no end to his Kingdom.”

Jesus therefore answered them, “Most certainly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father doing. For whatever things he does, these the Son also does likewise.

There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven that is given among men, by which we must be saved!”

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

Not that I seek for the gift, but I seek for the fruit that increases to your account.

Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,

But since we belong to the day, let’s be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.

Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober, and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;

He who walks blamelessly and does what is right, and speaks truth in his heart;

Righteousness will be the belt of his waist, and faithfulness the belt of his waist.

“Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt; for the tree is known by its fruit.

If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.”

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.

For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.

Pray for us, for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to live honorably in all things.

whom, not having known, you love. In him, though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory,

Whoever remains in him doesn’t sin. Whoever sins hasn’t seen him and doesn’t know him.

Whoever is born of God doesn’t commit sin, because his seed remains in him, and he can’t sin, because he is born of God.

“ ‘You shall not steal. “ ‘You shall not lie. “ ‘You shall not deceive one another.

but declared first to them of Damascus, at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.

I will be to you a Father. You will be to me sons and daughters,’ says the Lord Almighty.”

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but he is patient with us, not wishing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

Blessed is the man to whom Yahweh doesn’t impute iniquity, in whose spirit there is no deceit.

These are the things that you shall do: speak every man the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates,

Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance!

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.

But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

“In this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples.

Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!

But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit,

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.

Abstain from every form of evil.

that each person who belongs to God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

Even so, every good tree produces good fruit; but the corrupt tree produces evil fruit.

For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report: if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, think about these things.

Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. Your Spirit is good. Lead me in the land of uprightness.

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.

Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.

I myself am also persuaded about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others.

Now may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness,

Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.

Stand therefore, having the utility belt of truth buckled around your waist, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,

You gave also your good Spirit to instruct them, and didn’t withhold your manna from their mouth, and gave them water for their thirst.

Light dawns in the darkness for the upright, gracious, merciful, and righteous.

Don’t let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

The mandrakes produce fragrance. At our doors are all kinds of precious fruits, new and old, which I have stored up for you, my beloved.

Ephraim, what have I to do any more with idols? I answer, and will take care of him. I am like a green cypress tree; from me your fruit is found.”

But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God.”

Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

But now, being made free from sin and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification and the result of eternal life.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, God’s love, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.

but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him who is the head, Christ,

being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

which has come to you, even as it is in all the world and is bearing fruit and growing, as it does in you also, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth,

But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness.

But of the Son he says, “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. The scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your Kingdom.

who through faith subdued kingdoms, worked out righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.

If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.

Little children, let no one lead you astray. He who does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.

Beloved, don’t imitate that which is evil, but that which is good. He who does good is of God. He who does evil hasn’t seen God.

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!”