Ephesians Chapter 5 verse 9 Holy Bible

ASV Ephesians 5:9

(for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth),
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BBE Ephesians 5:9

(Because the fruit of the light is in all righteousness and in everything which is good and true),
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DARBY Ephesians 5:9

(for the fruit of the light [is] in all goodness and righteousness and truth,)
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KJV Ephesians 5:9

(For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)
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WBT Ephesians 5:9


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WEB Ephesians 5:9

for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,
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YLT Ephesians 5:9

for the fruit of the Spirit `is' in all goodness, and righteousness, and truth,
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 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.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(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."