The fruit of the Spirit - love
Galatians 5:22-23 "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law" Paul has been talking to the Galatians about walking the Spirit and here in Galatians 5 he contrasts what this means by first mentioning the deeds of the flesh in verses 19-21 (things like impurity, immorality, sensuality, outbursts of anger, jealousy etc) with the things of the Spirit. You will note that these are called the fruit of the Spirit. The word fruit is the greek word karpos which means that which originates or comes from something. In this case, these qualities don't come from within us, but from the Spirit. The Lord had a lot to say about bearing fruit. He told his disciples that good trees bore good fruit and bad trees bore bad fruit. This should be obvious, but the lesson for us is that all of us bear some type of fruit Luke 6:44. This is a result of either walk