Monday, July 18, 2022

The Fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-26) Annotated

This translation is from the New Jerusalem Bible.  Other translations can be accessed at the hyperlinked citation to Galatians 5:22-26 below.

 

Information on the original Greek what seem to be the words is provided in blue with hyperlinks to the sources. 

 

Galatians 5:22-26

the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, trustfulness, 23gentleness and self-control; no law can touch such things as these. 24All who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified self with all its passions and its desires.

 

25Since we are living by the Spirit, let our behaviour be guided by the Spirit 26and let us not be conceited or provocative and envious of one another.

 

fruit = καρπς = karpos  Blue Letter Bible  that which is produced by the inherent energy of a living organism; the visible expression of power working inwardly and invisibly; advantage, profit;sanctification; that which originates or comes from something, an effect, result; work, act, deed; utility; Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon  the fruits of the earth, corn, harvest, produce; taxes paid in kind; returns, profits; reward 

 

love = γπη = agape  Blue Letter Bible  affection, good will, love, benevolence, brotherly love; Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon  the love of husband and wife; brotherly love, charity

 

joy = χαρ = chara  Blue Letter Bible delight, gladnessHenry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon delight  

 

peace = ερνη = eirēnē  Blue Letter Bible harmonious relationships between men; friendliness; the sense of rest and contentment; The corresponding Heb. word shalom primarily signifies "wholeness"; quietness; harmony, concord; security, safety, prosperity, felicity; quietness, rest; way leading to peace, a course of life promoting harmony; a formula of wishing well, blessing, addressed by the Hebrews to departing friends; Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon  profound peace 

 

patience = μακροθυμα = makrothymia  Blue Letter Bible forbearance, longsuffering; endurance, constancy, steadfastness, perseverance; slowness in avenging wrongs; especially as shown in bearing troubles and ills;  R. Trench, Synonyms of the New Testament  patience in respect of persons

 

kindness = χρησττης = chrēstotēs  Blue Letter Bible  goodness of heart; moral goodness, integrity; benignity; excellence (in character or demeanor); gentleness; Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon  goodness, honesty, uprightness; goodness of heart; simplicity

 

goodness = γαθωσνη = agathōsynē  Blue Letter Bible  uprightness of heart and life, goodness, kindness; virtue or beneficence;  Jerome distinguishes between kindness and goodness in that the former describes the kindlier aspects of "goodness," the latter includes also the sterner qualities by which doing "good" to others is not necessarily by gentle means; a kindly activity on behalf of others;

 

faithfulness = πστις = pistis Blue Letter Bible firm persuasion, a conviction; trust; an assurance; the main element in "faith" in its relation to the invisible God, as distinct from "faith" in man; trust and holy fervor; a strong and welcome conviction; belief with the predominate idea of trust (or confidence); the conviction that God exists and is the creator and ruler of all things; a power that seizes upon the soul; fidelity, faithfulness;  Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon  trust; persuasion of a thing, confidence, assurance; credit 

 

gentleness= πρατης = prautēs  Blue Letter Bible meekness; mildness of disposition, gentleness of spirit;  R. Trench, Synonyms of the New Testament  an inwrought grace of the soul; and the exercises of it are first and chiefly towards God (Matt. 11:29; Jam. 1:21). It is that temper of spirit in which we accept his dealings with us as good, and therefore without disputing or resisting; This meekness, however, being first of all a meekness before God, is also such in the face of men, even of evil men, out of a sense that these, with the insults and injuries which they may inflict, are remitted and employed by Him for the chastening and purifying of his elect.

 

self-control = γκρτεια = egkrateia Blue Letter Bible  self-control; mastering desires and passions, esp. sensual appetites; temperance;  Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon   mastery over; self-control; control over

 

crucified = σταυρω = stauroō  Blue Letter Bible  to stake, drive down stakes; to impale on the cross; destroy power utterly; to extinguish; hang;  Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon   destroy its power

 

self = σρξ = sarx Blue Letter Bible the complete person; a living creature (because possessed of a body of flesh);  Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon  the whole body

 

passions = πθημα = pathēma  Blue Letter Bible  affliction; passion; externally, a suffering, misfortune, calamity, evil, affliction;  an inward state, an affliction, passion; an enduring, undergoing; something undergone, i.e. hardship or pain; subjectively, an emotion or influence;  Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon that which befalls one, suffering, misfortune; emotion or condition, affection; feelings; troubles, symptoms  

 

desires = πιθυμα = epithymia  Blue Letter Bible  desire, craving, longing; strong desire of any kind; lusts; Such lusts are not necessarily base and immoral, they may be refined in character, but are evil if inconsistent with the will of God; Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon   desire, yearning, passion, appetite; longing after, inclination 

 

living = ζω = zaō  Blue Letter Bible  to live, be among the living, be alive (not lifeless, not dead); to continue to live, to be kept alive; to enjoy real life; to have true life and worthy of the name; to live i.e. pass life, in the manner of the living and acting; to be in full vigour; to be fresh, strong, efficient, active, powerful, efficacious


be guided = στοιχω = stoicheō Blue Letter Bible to walk in line; to proceed in a row as the march of a soldier, go in order; to go on prosperously, to turn out well; to walk; to direct one's life, to live; keep step; walk (orderly); Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon to be drawn up in a line or row; in sequence; correspond; to be satisfactory to one; to be in line with, walk by, agree with, submit to

 

conceited = κενδοξος = kenodoxos Blue Letter Bible  vain-glorious; glorying without reason, conceited, vain glorious, eager for empty glory; self-conceited; Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon   vain-glorious, conceited

 

provocative = προκαλω = prokaleō  Blue Letter Bible  to call forth, as to a contest; to stir up what is evil in another; to challenge to a combat or contest with one; to provoke, to irritate; Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon   call forth; call out to fight, challenge; challenge to drink

 

envious = φθονω = phthoneō   Blue Letter Bible  to be jealous of; envy; Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon   bear ill-will or malice, grudge, be envious or jealous; refuse from feelings of envy or ill-will, grudge

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