Ephesians 5:9
New International Version
(for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth)

New Living Translation
For this light within you produces only what is good and right and true.

English Standard Version
(for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true),

Berean Standard Bible
for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth.

Berean Literal Bible
for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth--

King James Bible
(For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)

New King James Version
(for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth),

New American Standard Bible
(for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth),

NASB 1995
(for the fruit of the Light consists in all goodness and righteousness and truth),

NASB 1977
(for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness and righteousness and truth),

Legacy Standard Bible
(for the fruit of that light consists in all goodness and righteousness and truth),

Amplified Bible
(for the fruit [the effect, the result] of the Light consists in all goodness and righteousness and truth),

Christian Standard Bible
for the fruit of the light consists of all goodness, righteousness, and truth —

Holman Christian Standard Bible
for the fruit of the light results in all goodness, righteousness, and truth—

American Standard Version
(for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth),

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
For the fruits of The Light are in all goodness, righteousness and truth.

Contemporary English Version
and make your light shine. Be good and honest and truthful,

Douay-Rheims Bible
For the fruit of the light is in all goodness, and justice, and truth;

English Revised Version
(for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth),

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Light produces everything that is good, that has God's approval, and that is true.

Good News Translation
for it is the light that brings a rich harvest of every kind of goodness, righteousness, and truth.

International Standard Version
for the fruit that the light produces consists of every form of goodness, righteousness, and truth.

Literal Standard Version
for the fruit of the light [is] in all goodness, and righteousness, and truth,

Majority Standard Bible
for the fruit of the Spirit consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth.

New American Bible
for light produces every kind of goodness and righteousness and truth.

NET Bible
for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth--

New Revised Standard Version
for the fruit of the light is found in all that is good and right and true.

New Heart English Bible
for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,

Webster's Bible Translation
(For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, and righteousness, and truth;)

Weymouth New Testament
Live and act as sons of Light--for the effect of the Light is seen in every kind of goodness, uprightness and truth--

World English Bible
for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,

Young's Literal Translation
for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, and righteousness, and truth,

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Children of Light
8For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light, 9for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth. 10Test and prove what pleases the Lord.…

Cross References
Matthew 3:8
Produce fruit, then, in keeping with repentance.

Romans 15:14
I myself am convinced, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, brimming with knowledge, and able to instruct one another.

Galatians 5:22
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Colossians 3:18
Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.


Treasury of Scripture

(For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)

the fruit.

Galatians 5:22,23
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, …

goodness.

Psalm 16:2,3
O my soul, thou hast said unto the LORD, Thou art my Lord: my goodness extendeth not to thee; …

Romans 2:4
Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?

Romans 15:14
And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.

righteousness.

Philippians 1:11
Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.

1 Timothy 6:11
But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.

Hebrews 1:8
But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.

truth.

Ephesians 4:15,25
But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ: …

Ephesians 6:14
Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;

John 1:47
Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!

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Ephesians 5
1. After general exhortations to love;
3. to flee sexual immorality;
4. and all uncleanness;
7. not to converse with the wicked;
15. to walk carefully;
18. and to be filled with the Spirit;
22. he descends to the particular duties, how wives ought to obey their husbands;
25. and husbands ought to love their wives,
32. even as Christ does his church.














(9) For the fruit . . .--The true reading is, of the Light, for which the easier phrase, "the fruit of the Spirit," has been substituted, to the great detriment of the force and coherency of the whole passage. Light has its fruits; darkness (see Ephesians 5:11) is "unfruitful." The metaphor is striking, but literally correct, inasmuch as light is the necessary condition of that vegetative life which grows and yields fruit, while darkness is the destruction, if not of life, at any rate of fruit-bearing perfection.

Goodness and righteousness and truth.--These are practical exhibitions of the "being true in love," described in Ephesians 4:15 as the characteristic of the Christ-like soul. For "goodness" is love in practical benevolence, forming, in Galatians 5:22, a climax to "longsuffering" and "kindness," and, in 2Thessalonians 1:11, distinguished as practical from the "faith" which underlies practice. The other two qualities, "righteousness" and "truth"--that is, probably, truthfulness-are both parts of the great principle of "being true."

Verse 9. - For the fruit of light is [shown] in all goodness and righteousness and truth. The exhortation is confirmed by this statement of what is the natural result of light - goodness, the disposition that leads to good works; righteousness, rectitude, or integrity, which is most careful against all disorder and injustice, and renders to all their due, and especially to God the things that are God's; and truth, meaning a regard for truth in every form and way - believing it, reverencing it, speaking it, acting according to it, hoping and rejoicing in it, being sincere and honest, not false or treacherous.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
for
γὰρ (gar)
Conjunction
Strong's 1063: For. A primary particle; properly, assigning a reason.

the
(ho)
Article - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

fruit
καρπὸς (karpos)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 2590: Probably from the base of harpazo; fruit, literally or figuratively.

of the
τοῦ (tou)
Article - Genitive Neuter Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

light [consists]
φωτὸς (phōtos)
Noun - Genitive Neuter Singular
Strong's 5457: Light, a source of light, radiance. From an obsolete phao; luminousness.

in
ἐν (en)
Preposition
Strong's 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc.

all
πάσῃ (pasē)
Adjective - Dative Feminine Singular
Strong's 3956: All, the whole, every kind of. Including all the forms of declension; apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole.

goodness,
ἀγαθωσύνῃ (agathōsynē)
Noun - Dative Feminine Singular
Strong's 19: From agathos; goodness, i.e. Virtue or beneficence.

righteousness,
δικαιοσύνῃ (dikaiosynē)
Noun - Dative Feminine Singular
Strong's 1343: From dikaios; equity; specially justification.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

truth.
ἀληθείᾳ (alētheia)
Noun - Dative Feminine Singular
Strong's 225: From alethes; truth.


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