Ephesians 5:9

KJV1611 – Modern English

(For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)

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  • Eph 4:25 : 25 Therefore, putting away lying, let each one of you speak truth with his neighbor, for we are members of one another.
  • Eph 6:14 : 14 Stand therefore, having your waist girded with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
  • Rom 15:14 : 14 And I myself am also persuaded of you, my brethren, that you are also 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, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such there is no law.
  • Eph 4:15 : 15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into him who is the head, Christ:
  • Ps 16:2-3 : 2 O my soul, you have said to the LORD, 'You are my Lord: my goodness extends not to You; 3 But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight.'
  • Rom 2:4 : 4 Or do you despise the riches of His goodness and tolerance and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?
  • Phil 1:11 : 11 Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
  • 1 Tim 6:11 : 11 But you, O man of God, flee these things; and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, gentleness.
  • Heb 1:8 : 8 But to the Son He says, Your throne, O God, is forever and ever; a scepter of righteousness is the scepter of Your kingdom.
  • Heb 11:33 : 33 who through faith subdued kingdoms, worked righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,
  • 1 Pet 2:24-25 : 24 Who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed. 25 For you were like sheep going astray, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
  • 1 John 2:29 : 29 If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness is born of him.
  • 1 John 3:9-9 : 9 Whoever is born of God does not commit sin; for his seed remains in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. 10 In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: whoever does not do righteousness is not of God, nor he who does not love his brother.
  • 3 John 1:11 : 11 Beloved, do not follow what is evil, but what is good. He who does good is of God: but he who does evil has not seen God.
  • John 1:47 : 47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and said of him, Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!

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    23gentleness, self-control; against such there is no law.

  • Eph 5:10-11
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    10Finding out what is acceptable to the Lord.

    11And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them.

  • Eph 5:8
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    8For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord: walk as children of light:

  • Phil 1:10-11
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    10So that you may approve things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense until the day of Christ;

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  • Gal 5:16-19
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    16I say then, walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

    17For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you cannot do the things that you wish.

    18But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

    19Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are these: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness,

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    17But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.

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    13But all things that are exposed are made manifest by the light: for whatever makes manifest is light.

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    8For if these things are in you and abound, they make you that you shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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    14For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God.

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