22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; …
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, …
I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. …
Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 13-26)In the latter part of this chapter the apostle comes to exhort these Christians to serious practical godliness, as the best antidote against the snares of the false teachers. Two things especially he presses upon them:— I. That they should not strive with one another, but love one another. He tells them (Gal. 5:13) that they had been called unto liberty , and he would have them to stand fast in th…
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