22 But the [a]fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

23 Meekness, temperancy: [b]against such there is no law.

24 For they that are Christ’s, have crucified the flesh with the affections and the lusts.

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Footnotes

  1. Galatians 5:22 Therefore, they are not the fruits of free will, but so far forth as our will is made free by grace.
  2. Galatians 5:23 Lest that any man should object, that Paul played the Sophister, as one who urging the Spirit, urgeth nothing but that which the Law commandeth, he showeth that he requireth not that liberal and outward obedience, but spiritual, which proceedeth not from the Law, but from the Spirit of Christ, which doth beget us again, and must and ought to be the ruler and guider of life.

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