Galatians 5:22–23
The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such there is no law. (RSV)
Love
Joy
Peace
Patience
Kindness
Goodness
Faithfulness
Gentleness
Self-Control
Different translations use different words to express the meaning. I like this version for memorizing because it has a pattern. Three sets of words with increasing numbers of syllables.
One syllable: love, joy, peace
Two syllables: patience, kindness, goodness
Three syllables: faithfulness, gentleness, self-control
When my children were little, we wanted to find Scripture set to music. That’s when we discovered Steve Green’s Hide ’em in Your Heart CDs. Two of them. With songs that taught my children—and my husband and me—the verse about the fruit of the Spirit, as well as all the others on the two albums.
I was not immediately struck by the stylings of all the songs, but the more I listened the more they appealed to my ear . . . and I was learning them—hiding God’s Word in my heart, right along with my children.
I recalled the verse about it, Isaiah 55:11, that says:
So shall My word be that goeth forth out of My mouth: It shall not return until Me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
Please find this music for your family!
This is Volume 1
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