Ephesians 5:9

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

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

King James Version (1611)
(For the fruite of the spirit is in all goodnesse and righteousnesse & trueth.)

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

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

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

New Century Version
Light brings every kind of goodness, right living, and truth.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
(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),

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

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

Complete Jewish Bible
for the fruit of the light is in every kind of goodness, rightness and truth —

Darby Translation
(for the fruit of the light [is] in all goodness and righteousness and truth,)

Easy-to-Read Version
This light produces every kind of goodness, right living, and truth.

Geneva Bible (1587)
(For the fruit of the Spirit is in al goodnes, and righteousnes, and trueth)

George Lamsa Translation
For the fruits of light are found in all goodness, and righteousness, and truth;

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

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

Literal Translation
For the fruit of the Spirit is 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),

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

Bible in Basic English
(Because the fruit of the light is in all righteousness and in everything which is good and true),

Hebrew Names Version
for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,

International Standard Version
For the fruit of the lightof the Spirit">[fn] consists of every form of goodness, righteousness, and truth.Galatians 5:22;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
For the fruits of the light are in all goodness and rectitude and truth.

Murdock Translation
For the fruits of the light are in all goodness, and righteousness, and truth.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For the fruite of the spirite (is) in all goodnesse, and righteousnesse, & trueth,

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

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

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
walk as children of light; (The fruit of the light is in all goodness, and righteousness, and truth:)

Weymouth's 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--

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For the fruyt of liyt is in al goodnesse, and riytwisnesse, and treuthe.

Update Bible Version
-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;)

New English Translation
for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth—

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

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

New Life Bible
This light gives us truth. It makes us right with God and makes us good.

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

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, the fruit of the light, is in all goodness, and righteousness, and truth, -

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

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

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
For the frute of the sprete is in all goodnes rightewesnes and trueth.

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

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
(For the frute of the sprete is all maner of goodnes, and righteousnes and trueth:)

Mace New Testament (1729)
for the natural effect of light, is universal benevolence, justice, and truth:

Simplified Cowboy Version
This light that lives within you will work good in you if you just let it and listen to it, but it ain't going to make you do it.

Contextual Overview

³Don't allow love to turn into lust, setting off a downhill slide into sexual promiscuity, filthy practices, or bullying greed. Though some tongues just love the taste of gossip, those who follow Jesus have better uses for language than that. Don't talk dirty or silly. That kind of talk doesn't fit our style. Thanksgiving is our dialect. ⁵ You can be sure that using people or religion or things just for what you can get out of them—the usual variations on idolatry—will get you nowhere, and certainly nowhere near the kingdom of Christ, the kingdom of God. ⁶Don't let yourselves get taken in by religious smooth talk. God gets furious with people who are full of religious sales talk but want nothing to do with him. Don't even hang around people like that. ⁸You groped your way through that murk once, but no longer. You're out in the open now. The bright light of Christ makes your way plain. So no more stumbling around. Get on with it! The good, the right, the true—these are the actions appropriate for daylight hours. Figure out what will please Christ, and then do it. ¹¹Don't waste your time on useless work, mere busywork, the barren pursuits of darkness. Expose these things for the sham they are. It's a scandal when people waste their lives on things they must do in the darkness where no one will see. Rip the cover off those frauds and see how attractive they look in the light of Christ. Wake up from your sleep, Climb out of your coffins; Christ will show you the light! So watch your step. Use your head. Make the most of every chance you get. These are desperate times! ¹⁷ Don't live carelessly, unthinkingly. Make sure you understand what the Master wants. ¹⁸Don't drink too much wine. That cheapens your life. Drink the Spirit of God, huge draughts of him. Sing hymns instead of drinking songs! Sing songs from your heart to Christ. Sing praises over everything, any excuse for a song to God the Father in the name of our Master, Jesus Christ.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the fruit: Galatians 5:22, Galatians 5:23

goodness: Psalms 16:2, Psalms 16:3, Romans 2:4, Romans 15:14, 1 Peter 2:25, 3 John 1:11

righteousness: Philippians 1:11, 1 Timothy 6:11, Hebrews 1:8, Hebrews 11:33, 1 Peter 2:24, 1 John 2:29, 1 John 3:9, 1 John 3:10

truth: Ephesians 4:15, Ephesians 4:25, Ephesians 6:14, John 1:47

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 27:9 - this day Nehemiah 9:20 - good Psalms 112:4 - he is gracious Psalms 143:10 - thy spirit Proverbs 3:3 - mercy Song of Solomon 7:13 - at our Hosea 14:8 - From me Matthew 3:8 - fruits Matthew 7:17 - every John 3:21 - that his John 7:38 - out John 15:5 - same Romans 6:22 - ye have Romans 8:5 - of the Spirit Romans 8:14 - led Romans 8:23 - which have Romans 12:2 - good 2 Corinthians 9:10 - increase 2 Corinthians 13:14 - the communion Philippians 4:8 - are true Colossians 1:6 - bringeth 1 Thessalonians 5:8 - who 1 Timothy 2:3 - this James 3:17 - gentle 1 John 3:7 - he that

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For the fruit of the Spirit,.... Either of the spirit of man, as renewed, or rather of the Spirit of God; the allusion is to fruits of trees: the believer is a tree of righteousness; Christ is his root; the Spirit is the sap, which supports and nourishes; and good works, under the influence of his grace, are the fruit: the Alexandrian copy, and some others, and the Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Ethiopic versions, read "the fruit of light"; which agrees with the preceding words: and the genuine fruit of internal grace, or light,

[is] in all goodness, and righteousness, and truth; the fruit of "goodness", lies in sympathizing with persons in distress; in assisting such according to the abilities men have in a readiness to forgive offences and injuries; and in using meekness and candour in admonishing others: "righteousness" lies in living in obedience to the law of God; in attending the worship and service of him; and in discharging our duty to our fellow creatures; and this as goodness, is very imperfect, and not to be boasted of, or trusted to, nor is salvation to be expected from it: "truth" is opposed to lying, to hypocrisy, to error and falsehood; and where the Spirit of God, and the work of grace are, there will be more or less an appearance of these fruits.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For the fruit of the Spirit - That is, since the Holy Spirit through the gospel produces goodness, righteousness, and truth, see that you exhibit these in your lives, and thus show that you are the children of light. On the fruits of the Spirit, see the notes on Galatians 5:22-23.

Is in all goodness - Is seen in producing all kinds of goodness. He who is not good is not a Christian.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 9. For the fruit of the Spirit — Instead of Spirit, πνευματος, ABD*EFG, the Syriac, Coptic, Sahidic, AEthiopic, Armenian, Vulgate, and Itala, together with several of the fathers, read φωτος, light, which is supposed by most critics to be the true reading, because there is no mention made of the Spirit in any part of the context. As light, Ephesians 5:8, not only means the Divine influence upon the soul, but also the Gospel, with great propriety it may be said: The fruit of the light, i.e. of the Gospel, is in all goodness, and righteousness, and truth. Goodness, αγαθωσυνη, in the principle and disposition; righteousness, δικαιοσυνη, the exercise of that goodness in the whole conduct of life; truth, αληθεια, the director of that principle, and its exercise, to the glorification of God and the good of mankind.