Ephesians 5:9

American Standard Version (1901)

(for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth),

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  • Eph 4:25 : 25 Wherefore, putting away falsehood, speak ye truth each one with his neighbor: for we are members one of another.
  • Eph 6:14 : 14 Stand therefore, having girded your loins with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,
  • Rom 15:14 : 14 And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.
  • Gal 5:22-23 : 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 meekness, self-control; against such there is no law.
  • Eph 4:15 : 15 but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, [even] Christ;
  • Ps 16:2-3 : 2 [ O my soul], thou hast said unto Jehovah, Thou art my Lord: I have no good beyond thee. 3 As for the saints that are in the earth, They are the excellent in whom is all my delight.
  • Rom 2:4 : 4 Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?
  • Phil 1:11 : 11 being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
  • 1 Tim 6:11 : 11 But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.
  • Heb 1:8 : 8 but of the Son [he saith], Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever; And the sceptre of uprightness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.
  • Heb 11:33 : 33 who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,
  • 1 Pet 2:24-25 : 24 who his own self bare our sins in his body upon the tree, that we, having died unto sins, might live unto righteousness; by whose stripes ye were healed. 25 For ye were going astray like sheep; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.
  • 1 John 2:29 : 29 If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one also that doeth righteousness is begotten of him.
  • 1 John 3:9-9 : 9 Whosoever is begotten of God doeth no sin, because his seed abideth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is begotten of God. 10 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
  • 3 John 1:11 : 11 Beloved, imitate not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: he that doeth evil hath not seen God.
  • John 1:47 : 47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!

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    10proving what is well-pleasing unto the Lord;

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