galatians-5:22-23

Wells of Living Water Commentary - Galatians 5:14-26

The Graces of the Spirit's Indwelling Galatians 5:14-26 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The works of the flesh are manifest. It is not necessary for anyone to draw upon his imagination to describe the works of the flesh. The everyday contact of us all is with these very works. They are clearly seen and readily acknowledged. 2. The works of the flesh are descriptive of the life of the flesh. The heart of man is sinful above all things and desperately wicked. It is out of this deceitful, wicked heart... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Galatians 5:22

CHRISTIAN JOY‘The fruit of the Spirit is … joy.’ Galatians 5:22 The end of religion is not penitence, it is not contrition, it is not conviction of sin; it is something better than all that. The end of religion, to which it is all working, is joy. Jesus Christ Himself ‘for the joy which was set before Him endured the Cross.’ So, again, St. Paul, in prison chained to a soldier, with many disappointments and trials, yet he said, ‘Rejoice in the Lord alway, and again I say rejoice.’What does... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Galatians 5:22-23

FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT‘The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance.’ Galatians 5:22-Isaiah : No efforts of ours can cast off the unsightly works of the flesh; but as the blessed Spirit works in us, to will and to do of His good pleasure, they will fall off, overpowered by the new and increasing strength of the secret life within. There will be no sudden, violent transformation, after the one great momentous transplanting, when we... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 5:13-26

Freedom is Not to Be Misinterpreted as Licence. They Must Walk in Love and By the Spirit (Galatians 5:13-26 ). Paul now goes on to deal with the charge that the Gospel he is presenting gives men licence to do as they like. What he is teaching, he points out, will not result in licentious living, but rather the opposite. It will result in living by the Spirit, in producing the fruit of the Spirit in their lives. read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 5:22-23

‘But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness (consideration for others), goodness, faithfulness, meekness, self-control. Against such there is no Law.’ In contrast to the works of the flesh is the fruit of the Spirit. And now he outlines the ‘fruit’ of the Spirit. We notice the word for fruit is singular. All these things result from the Spirit’s work within, we cannot pick and choose. ‘The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience and long-suffering,... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 5:13-26

Galatians 5:13 to Galatians 6:10 . Practical appendix to the epistle; in the form of “ guarding” the doctrine of free grace against antinomian abuse. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Galatians 5:22

The fruit of the Spirit; those habits which the Holy Spirit of God produceth in those in whom it dwelleth and worketh, with those acts which flow from them, as naturally as the tree produceth its fruit, are, love to God, and to our neighbours: joy; the soul’s satisfaction in its union with God, as the greatest and highest good; with an actual rejoicing in Christ, and in what is for his honour and glory, called a rejoicing in the truth, 1 Corinthians 13:6; and in the good of our brethren, Romans... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Galatians 5:23

Meekness; forbearance of passion, rash anger, and hastiness of spirit: temperance; a sober use of meats, drinks, apparel, or any thing wherein our senses are delighted. Many of these are moral virtues, and such as some have attained to by moral discipline, the cultivating of their natures by education, and moral philosophy: yet they are also the fruits of the Spirit of God; such as it doth always work in the souls wherein it dwelleth (though in different measures and degrees): only the moral... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Galatians 5:22-26

CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTESGalatians 5:22. The fruit of the Spirit.—The singular fruit, as compared with the plural works, suggests that the effect of the Spirit’s inworking is one harmonious whole, while carnality tends to multitudinousness, distraction, chaos. We are not to look for a rigorous logical classification in either catalogue. Generally, the fruit of the Spirit may be arranged as: I. Inward graces—“love, joy, peace.” II. Graces towards man—“longsuffering, gentleness, goodness,... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Galatians 5:22

Galatians 5:22 , Galatians 5:23 . The Fruits of the Spirit. I. Every tree is known by its fruit. And just so it is with us. The Bible often speaks about men as trees. Our root is the heart; the heart is the root of every man and of every man's life; and according then to what the heart is will be the life. Now what is the fruit of the Spirit? It is the fruit of a heart that has been renewed by the Spirit of God. God does not begin at the outside, at the circumference, but with the heart. He... read more