Ephesians 5:9

World English Bible (2000)

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 falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.
  • Eph 6:14 : 14 Stand therefore, having the utility belt of truth buckled around your waist, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,
  • Rom 15:14 : 14 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.
  • Gal 5:22-23 : 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, 23 gentleness, and self-control. Against such things 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, Christ;
  • Ps 16:2-3 : 2 My soul, you have said to Yahweh, "You are my Lord. Apart from you I have no good thing." 3 As for the saints who are in the earth, they are the excellent ones in whom is all my delight.
  • Rom 2:4 : 4 Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, 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 through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
  • 1 Tim 6:11 : 11 But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, and gentleness.
  • Heb 1:8 : 8 But of the Son he says, "Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. The scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your Kingdom.
  • Heb 11:33 : 33 who, through faith subdued kingdoms, worked out righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,
  • 1 Pet 2:24-25 : 24 who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed. 25 For you were going astray like sheep; but now have 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 doesn't commit sin, because his seed remains in him; and he can't sin, because he is born of God. 10 In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn't do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn't love his brother.
  • 3 John 1:11 : 11 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.
  • John 1:47 : 47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, "Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!"

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  • Eph 5:10-11
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    10 proving what is well pleasing to the Lord.

    11 Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

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

  • Phil 1:10-11
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  • Gal 5:16-19
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    16 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won't fulfill the lust of the flesh.

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

    19 Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,

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    8 For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to be not idle nor unfruitful to the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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  • Eph 5:17-18
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  • John 3:21
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    23 and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

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

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