Fruit of the Spirit
Love, joy, peace and more: the harvest the Spirit grows in a believer's life
The fruit of the Spirit names the moral virtues the Holy Spirit produces in believers, listed in Galatians 5:22–23 as love, joy, peace, and the qualities that follow. The image of fruit suggests these are not self-generated achievements but the natural growth of a life rooted in the Spirit. Christians across traditions point to them as signs and evidence of the Spirit's transforming presence within the believer.
How it traveled
- GalatiansEphesus · c. 67 CEexplains
- RomansCorinth · c. 67 CEexplains
- PhilippiansRome · c. 67 CEexplains
- Homilies on First CorinthiansConstantinople (Istanbul) · c. 407 CEexplains
- The Homilies of St. John ChrysostomConstantinople (Istanbul) · c. 407 CEexplains
- A Commentary on the Acts of the ApostlesConstantinople (Istanbul) · c. 407 CEexplains
- Commentary on GalatiansWittenberg · c. 1546 CEexplains
- A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections, in Three PartsNorthampton, Massachusetts · c. 1758 CEexplains
- Thoughts on the Revival of Religion in New EnglandNorthampton, Massachusetts · c. 1758 CEexplains
- Seventeen Occasional SermonsNorthampton, Massachusetts · c. 1758 CEexplains
- Narrative of Surprising ConversionsNorthampton, Massachusetts · c. 1758 CEapplies
- Five Sermons. On Different OccasionsNorthampton, Massachusetts · c. 1758 CEexplains
- The great christian doctrine of original sin defendedNorthampton, Massachusetts · c. 1758 CEexplains
- Seven Sermons. On Important SubjectsNorthampton, Massachusetts · c. 1758 CEexplains
Key passages(20)
Each passage is tagged by what it does with the idea: explains it, applies it in practice, redefines it with a new meaning, or challenges it. Relevance shows how directly the passage is about this idea.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,
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Commentary on Galatians · Martin Luther
It would have been enough to mention only the single fruit of love, for love embraces all the fruits of the Spirit. In I Corinthians 13, Paul attributes to love all the fruits of the Spirit: “Charity
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The Catechetical Lectures of S. Cyril · Cyril of Jerusalem
38. And may the very God of All, who spake by the Holy Ghost through the prophets, who sent Him forth upon the Apostles on the day of Pentecost in this place, Himself send Him forth at this time also
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A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections, in Three Parts · Jonathan Edwards
Truly gracious affections differ from those that are false and delusive, in that they naturally beget and promote such a spirit of love., meekness, quietness, forgiveness, and mercy, as appeared in Ch
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Five Sermons. On Different Occasions · Jonathan Edwards
And let it be considered, where is our warrant in Scripture, to make use of any legal convictions, or any method or order of successive events in a work of the law, and consequent comforts, as a sure
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Seven Sermons. On Important Subjects · Jonathan Edwards
II. This subject ought to put you upon examining yourselves, whether you be not wholly useless creatures. You have now heard, that those who bring forth no fruit to God, are, as to any good they do, w
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The great christian doctrine of original sin defended · Jonathan Edwards
When Christ says,John iii. 6.“That which is born of the flesh, is flesh,“ he represents the flesh not merely as a quality; for it would be incongruous to speak of a quality as a thing born. Therefore
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A Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles · John Chrysostom
Now if thou still questionest that Christ is God, stand away from the Church: be not here, even as a hearer of the Divine Word, and as one of the catechumens:ch. ii. 41; iv. 4, and ch. x.) and again C
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A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections, in Three Parts · Jonathan Edwards
That such virtue is the very nature of the christian spirit, or the spirit that worketh in Christ and in his members, is evident by this, that the dove is the very symbol or emblem, chosen of God to r
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Narrative of Surprising Conversions · Jonathan Edwards
She often expressed a sense of the glory of God appearing in the trees, the growth of the fields, and other works of God’s hands. She told her sister who lived near the heart of the town, that she onc
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being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
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Seven Sermons. On Important Subjects · Jonathan Edwards
2. If men do not bring forth fruit to God, they are not fit to be disposed of in heaven. Heaven, above all others, is the most improper place for them. Every thing appertaining to that state is unsuit
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The First Epistle of the Blessed Clement, the Disciple of Peter the Apostle. · Two Epistles Concerning Virginity
Chapter IX.—Continuation of the Subject of Mortification; Dignity of Persons Consecrated to God. He in whomsoever the Spirit of God is, is in accord with the will of the Spirit of God; and, because h
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A History of the Work of Redemption · Jonathan Edwards
(3.) It shall be a time wherein religion shall in every respect be uppermost in the world. It shall be had in great esteem and honour. The saints have hitherto for the most part been kept under, and w
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Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount · Augustine of Hippo
Chapter XXIV. 78. Here, therefore, those who promise a wisdom and a knowledge of the truth which they do not possess, are especially to be guarded against; as, for instance, heretics, who frequently
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Commentary on Galatians · Martin Luther
Ministers of the Gospel, public officials, parents, children, masters, servants, etc., are true saints when they take Christ for their wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption, and when t
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The Twelve Books on the Institutes of the Cœnobia, and the Remedies for the Eight Principal Faults · John Cassian
How our fifth combat is against the spirit of dejection, and of the harm which it inflicts upon the soul. In our fifth combat we have to resist the pangs of gnawing dejection: for if this, through se
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60. And the Lord Himself made clear that the same Who is the Spirit of the Father is the Holy Spirit, when according to Matthew He said that we ought not to take thought in persecution what we should
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The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Paul's Epistle to the Romans · John Chrysostom
See how continually he puts the word “called,” saying, “called to be an Apostle; among whom ye also are called; to all that be in Rome, called:” and this he does not out of superfluity of words, but o
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A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections, in Three Parts · Jonathan Edwards
So hope in God, and in the promises of his word, is often spoken of in the Scripture, as a very considerable part of true religion. It is mentioned as one of the three great things of which religion c
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