Galatians 5:22-23

 

 

1. Love: Strong, tender, compassionate, devotion to the well being of others.

2. Joy: emotional, excitement, gladness, delight over blessings received or expected for self & others-not tied to circumstances.

 3. Peace: State of quietness-rest, harmony order and security in the midst of turmoil, strife & temptations.

 4. Longsuffering: patient endurance to bear long with the offences, injuries & provocation of others without resentment or murmuring.

5. Gentleness: to be gentle-soft spoken, kind, even tempered-cultured, refined in character & conduct.

 6. Goodness: the state of being good, kind, virtuous, benevolent, generous, God like in life & conduct.

7.  Faith: confidence, assurance, trust, reliance in God & all that he says.

8.  Meekness: to be gentle, kind, indulgent, even balanced in tempers & passions, patient in suffering injuries without a spirit of revenge.

9.  Temperance: self-control a moderation in the indulgence of the appetite & passions.