LESSON 13
THE FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT
1. Name the fruits of the Spirit as recorded in Galatians 5: 22, 23
2. What is love (charity) declared to be?
1 Corinthians 13: 13; Colossians 3: 14
3. How do we receive the love of God in our hearts?
Romans 5: 5
4. What are the virtues of true love?
1 Corinthians 13: 4, 5; 1 Peter 4: 8
5. What brings real joy to ones life?
Acts 8: 5 – 8; 1 Peter 1: 8, 9
6. What kind of joy can the Christian only have?
Romans 14: 17; John 15: 11
7. What will the peace of God do for the believer?
Philippians 4: 7; John 14: 27
8. What brings the peace to ones life?
Psalms 119: 165
9. Is longsuffering part of a Christian’s experience?
2 Corinthians 6: 6 Ephesians 4: 2
10. What is the servant of the Lord admonished to be to all men?
2 Timothy 2:24
11. What kind of wisdom does one display by being gentle?
James 3: 17
12. How does Paul speak of the Roman believers in respect to possessing the fruit of goodness? Romans 15: 14?
13. Who is the source of all goodness?
Psalms 107: 9; Exodus 34:6
14. How essential is faith?
Hebrews 11: 6; John 5: 4
15. What is the evidence of faith?
Mark 5: 34; James 2: 18
16. What spirit must the christian manifest at all times?
1 Peter 3: 4; Galatians 6:1
17. What will be the result if we receive with meekness the engrafted word of God?
James 1: 21
18. In the Christian’s growth in grace what follows knowledge?
2 Peter 1: 6
19. While striving for mastery, in how many things should we be temperate? 1 Corinthians 9: 25
20. In contrast, what are some of the fruits of the flesh?
Galatians 5: 19 – 21
21. What is one sure way of having the fruit of the Spirit?
Galatians 5: 18, 25
Note: It is illogical and unreasonable to expect the fruit of the Spirit in the life of anyone who has not been filled with the Spirit. Furthermore it may take a little time for the fruits to appear – the blossom (beauty, joy and fragrance) come first, then we can expect longsuffering, temperance, etc. However where these fruits do not appear there is something definitely abnormal in the growth.
