Today I was in Galatians 5 for my quiet time. It was so cool! God totally told me to compare the fruit of the Spirit to the chapter on love, 1 Corinthians 13. Wouldn't you know itthey're parallel passages!
Galatians 5:22-23 KJV "But the fruit of the Spirit is love: joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith 23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law"
1 Corinthians 13:4-7 KJV "Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, 5 doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; 6 rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; 7 beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things."
Ok, there should be a colon after love in Galatians, so I put it there. Also, the word "easily" in 1 Corinthians 13:5 is not there in the original text. That being said:
Galatians "joy" = 1 Corinthians "rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth"
G "peace" = C "Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things"
G "longsuffering" = C "Charity suffereth long"
G "gentleness" = C "seeks not her own"
G "goodness" = C "and is kind" "Does not behave unseemly" "Thinks no evil"
G "faith" = C "Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things"
G "meekness" = C "charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up"
G "temperance" = "charity envieth not" "is not provoked"
One can then see, that the fruit of the Spirit is love. But than you can go to 1 Corinthians 13 and get a better description of what the fruit of the Spirit truly is!
It has been said before, and I think I'll repeat it. The best commentary on the Bible is the Bible!
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