Ephesians 5:9 Parallel Translations
NASB: (for the fruit of the Light consists in all goodness and righteousness and truth), (NASB ©1995)
GWT: Light produces everything that is good, that has God's approval, and that is true.(GOD'S WORD®)
KJV: (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)
ASV: (for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth),
BBE: (Because the fruit of the light is in all righteousness and in everything which is good and true),
DBY: (for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,)
ERV: (for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth),
WEY: Live and act as sons of Light--for the effect of the Light is seen in every kind of goodness, uprightness and truth--
WBS: (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, and righteousness, and truth;)
WEB: for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,
YLT: for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, and righteousness, and truth,
Ephesians 5:9 Cross References
XREF:Romans 15:14 And concerning you, my brethren, I myself also am convinced that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge and able also to admonish one another.

Galatians 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, (NASB ©1995)
Commentaries and Concordances
GSB: 5:9 (For the fruit of the {d} Spirit [is] in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)
(d) By whose power we are made light in the Lord.
PNT: 5:9 For the fruit of the Spirit. To walk as children of light (Eph 5:8) is to bear the fruit of the Spirit. This is shown by goodness and righteousness. See Ga 5:22.
WES: 5:9 The fruit of the light - Opposite to the unfruitful works of darkness, Eph 4:11. Is in - That is, consists in. Goodness and righteousness and truth - Opposite to the sins spoken of, Eph 4:25, and c.
MHC: 5:3-14 Filthy lusts must be rooted out. These sins must be dreaded and detested. Here are not only cautions against gross acts of sin, but against what some may make light of. But these things are so far from being profitable. that they pollute and poison the hearers. Our cheerfulness should show itself as becomes Christians, in what may tend to God's glory. A covetous man makes a god of his money; places that hope, confidence, and delight, in worldly good, which should be in God only. Those who allow themselves, either in the lusts of the flesh or the love of the world, belong not to the kingdom of grace, nor shall they come to the kingdom of glory. When the vilest transgressors repent and believe the gospel, they become children of obedience, from whom God's wrath is turned away. Dare we make light of that which brings down the wrath of God? Sinners, like men in the dark, are going they know not whither, and doing they know not what. But the grace of God wrought a mighty change in the souls of many. Walk as children of light, as having knowledge and holiness. These works of darkness are unfruitful, whatever profit they may boast; for they end in the destruction of the impenitent sinner. There are many ways of abetting, or taking part in the sins of others; by commendation, counsel, consent, or concealment. And if we share with others in their sins, we must expect to share in their plagues. If we do not reprove the sins of others, we have fellowship with them. A good man will be ashamed to speak of what many wicked men are not ashamed to do. We must have not only a sight and a knowledge that sin is sin, and in some measure shameful, but see it as a breach of God's holy law. After the example of prophets and apostles, we should call on those asleep and dead in sin, to awake and arise, that Christ may give them light.
CONC:TRUE Consists Effect Fruit Goodness Kind Righteousness Sons Spirit Truth Uprightness
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