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But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,
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Verse 22. The fruit of the Spirit is charity, and so forth There are numbered twelve of these fruits in the Latin, though but nine in the Greek text, in Saint John Chrysostom S. Jerom, Saint Augustine tract. lxxxvii. in Joan. p. 756. The difference may again happen by the Latin interpreter using two words to express one Greek word. It is observed, that longanimity and patience are in a manner the same; so are benignity and goodness; and so may be here continency and chastity. Witham.
or, faithfulness
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