How many fruits of the Spirit are listed and how are they divided?
Nine fruits of the Spirit are listed, divided into three segments of three each. The first segment is love, joy, and peace, the inner results of salvation in the believer's life. The remaining six fruits—long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, and temperance—make up the other two segments of three.
Les explains that there are nine fruits of the Spirit, and he divides them into three segments of three each. The first part—love, joy, and peace—he describes as the inner results of salvation in the life of the believer, what we experience simply as a result of having believed the Gospel. He emphasizes that we are not saved just as a fire escape to escape hell, but to have life abundantly. These fruits are attributes that enhance life, and against such there is no law. Les illustrates by asking how great it would be to live in a community where everyone lived this kind of life, as opposed to the pandemonium of the works of the flesh described in the previous verses, which fill police blotters.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
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What are the nine fruits of the Spirit listed in Galatians 5:22-23?
The fruit or result of the Spirit's work is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, and temperance, against which there is no law.
What is the relationship between the fruit of the Spirit and the works of the flesh?
The fruit of the Spirit is a total inversion of the activities of the previous verses, which describe the works of the flesh.