spirituality

²²But the fruit of the Spirit is charity, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, forbearance,

⁶For the prudence of the flesh is death. But the prudence of the spirit is life and peace.

¹⁷the Spirit of Truth, whom the world is not able to accept, because it neither perceives him nor knows him. But you shall know him. For he will remain with you, and he will be in you.

⁴so that the justification of the law might be fulfilled in us. For we are not walking according to the flesh, but according to the spirit.

⁶Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for justice, for they shall be satisfied.

¹“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. ²Every branch in me that does not bear fruit, he will take away. And each one that does bear fruit, he will cleanse, so that it may bring forth more fruit. ³You are clean now, because of the word that I have spoken to you. ⁴Abide in me, and I in you. Just as the branch is not able to bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, so also are you unable, unless you abide in me. ⁵I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me, and I in him, bears much fruit. For without me, you are able to do nothing. ⁶If anyone does not abide in me, he will be cast away, like a branch, and he will wither, and they will gather him and cast him into the fire, and he burns.

²⁴God is Spirit. And so, those who worship him must worship in spirit and in truth.”

¹Therefore, if you have risen together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. ²Consider the things that are above, not the things that are upon the earth. ³For you have died, and so your life is hidden with Christ in God.

¹⁷For the kingdom of God is not food and drink, but rather justice and peace and joy, in the Holy Spirit.

⁵And may you continue to observe attentively, and to work to fulfill, the commandment and the law that Moses, the servant of the Lord, instructed to you, so that you may love the Lord your God, and walk in all his ways, and keep all his commandments, and cling to him, and serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.”

²²But the fruit of the Spirit is charity, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, forbearance, ²³meekness, faith, modesty, abstinence, chastity. There is no law against such things.

²⁰Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone will hear my voice and will open the door to me, I will enter to him, and I will dine with him, and he with me.

²But his will is with the law of the Lord, and he will meditate on his law, day and night.

¹¹And so, you should consider yourselves to be certainly dead to sin, and to be living for God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

²⁷Do not work for food that perishes, but for that which endures to eternal life, which the Son of man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”