Ephesians 5:9
7 Therefore do not be partakers with them.
8 For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,
for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth.
10 Test and prove what pleases the Lord.
11 Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth.
- KJV
- (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)
- WEB
- for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,
- ASV
- (for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth),
- DARBY
- (for the fruit of the light [is] in all goodness and righteousness and truth,)
- BLB
- for the fruit of the light [is] in all goodness and righteousness and truth—
- ÅB
- for lysets frukt viser seg i all godhet og rettferdighet og sannhet -
- OTB
- (for lysets frukt finnes i alt som er godt, rettferdig, og sant),
- B1930
- for lysets frukt viser sig i all godhet og rettferdighet og sannhet -
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Galatians 5:22–23
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Read in context3 John 1:11
Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. The one who does good is of God; the one who does evil has not seen God.
Read in context1 John 3:9–10
Anyone born of God refuses to practice sin, because God’s seed abides in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God.
Read in contextRomans 15:14
I myself am convinced, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, brimming with knowledge, and able to instruct one another.
Read in contextEphesians 6:14
Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness arrayed,
Read in context1 Timothy 6:11
But you, O man of God, flee from these things and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness.
Read in contextPhilippians 1:11
filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
Read in contextPsalms 16:2–3
I said to the LORD, “You are my Lord; apart from You I have no good thing.”
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