Fruits Of The Holy Spirit
In galatians 5 paul wants to make sure that people know how to spot the evidence of the holy spirit in their lives.
Fruits of the holy spirit. The result of the holy spirit in their lives will be good things like love joy kindness and self control. Fruits of the spirit indicate a relationship with christ. The 12 fruits are charity or love joy peace patience benignity or kindness goodness longanimity or long suffering mildness or gentleness faith modesty continency or self control and chastity.
Ephesians 1 13 14 explains that the holy spirit is a deposit given to believers in christ that guarantees their relationship with christ. But the fruit of the spirit is love joy peace patience kindness goodness faithfulness gentleness and self control. Longanimity modesty and chastity are the three fruits found only in the longer version of the text.
When a person accepts jesus christ as his personal savior and abides in the word of god he will receive the holy spirit. The 12 fruits of the holy spirit.