“(For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)”
For the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth — the karpos tou phōtos ('fruit of the light') manifests: agathosynē ('goodness,' generosity), dikaiosynē ('righteousness,' justice), and alētheia ('truth,' authenticity), the illuminated life's practical outcomes.
Church Fathers on Ephesians 5:9
“For the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth, proving what is well-pleasing unto the Lord.” “In all goodness,” he says: this is opposed to the angry, and the bitter: “and righteousness”; this to the covetous: “and truth”; this to false pleasure: not those former things, he says, which I was mentioning, but their opposites. “In all”; that is, the fruit of the Spirit ought to be evinced in everything. “Proving what is well-pleasing unto the Lord”;…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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