But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Nothing good comes from man; nothing good comes but from the Holy Spirit. The gentleness and integrity we see in unregenerate men are mere shows before men, not pure in God's sight. Joy here means a cheerful bearing toward others, not moroseness; faith means truth, opposed to cunning and deceit.
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Christ has freed you from the curse of the law, but not from the obligation of it. Do not seize your Christian liberty as a license for the flesh and quarrels with your brothers; rather, serve one another in love, maintaining that mutual affection which binds you together despite your differences.
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Commenting on Galatians 5:13-26
These fruits of the Spirit stand in direct opposition to the works of the flesh: love against hatred, joy against envy, peace against strife, patience and goodness against wrath and murder, faith against idolatry, temperance against drunkenness. Against such graces the law has nothing to say; those who possess them are led by the Spirit and have nothing to fear from it.
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