Righteousness, as understood within the biblical context, refers to the quality of being morally right or justifiable, aligning with God's standards and commands. The fruits of righteousness are the visible outcomes or manifestations in the life of a believer who walks in accordance with God's will. These fruits are not merely external actions but are deeply rooted in the transformation of the heart and mind through the Holy Spirit.

Biblical Foundation

The concept of righteousness and its fruits is deeply embedded in Scripture. In the Old Testament, righteousness is often associated with justice, mercy, and faithfulness. The prophet Isaiah speaks of the peace and quietness that result from righteousness: "The fruit of righteousness will be peace; the effect of righteousness will be quietness and confidence forever" (Isaiah 32:17).

In the New Testament, the Apostle Paul frequently addresses the fruits of righteousness. In his letter to the Philippians, he prays that believers may be "filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God" (Philippians 1:11). This indicates that the fruits of righteousness are not self-generated but are produced through a relationship with Jesus Christ.

Characteristics of the Fruits of Righteousness

1. Peace and Joy: A life marked by righteousness is characterized by peace and joy, which are fruits of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22). This peace is not merely the absence of conflict but a profound sense of well-being and harmony with God and others.

2. Holiness and Purity: Righteousness leads to a life of holiness and purity. The Apostle John writes, "Everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure" (1 John 3:3). The pursuit of holiness is a natural outcome of a righteous life.

3. Good Works: Righteousness manifests in good works and acts of kindness. James emphasizes that faith without works is dead (James 2:26). The fruits of righteousness are evident in the believer's actions, reflecting God's love and compassion.

4. Integrity and Honesty: A righteous person is marked by integrity and honesty. Proverbs 11:3 states, "The integrity of the upright guides them, but the perversity of the faithless destroys them" . Righteousness involves living truthfully and transparently.

5. Justice and Mercy: Righteousness involves a commitment to justice and mercy. Micah 6:8 encapsulates this by stating, "He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?" .

The Role of the Holy Spirit

The Holy Spirit plays a crucial role in producing the fruits of righteousness in the believer's life. It is through the Spirit's work that believers are transformed and empowered to live righteously. Paul writes in Romans 8:4 that "the righteous requirements of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit" .

Eternal Perspective

The fruits of righteousness have an eternal dimension. They are not only beneficial for the present life but also have implications for eternity. In 2 Corinthians 9:10, Paul speaks of God increasing "the harvest of your righteousness" , indicating that the fruits of righteousness contribute to eternal rewards and the believer's ultimate glorification with Christ.

In summary, the fruits of righteousness are the tangible expressions of a life transformed by God's grace and empowered by the Holy Spirit. They reflect the character of Christ and serve as a testimony to the world of God's redemptive work in the believer's life.Deuteronomy 6:25
And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the LORD our God, as he has commanded us.
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Joshua 22:31
And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said to the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the children of Manasseh, This day we perceive that the LORD is among us, because you have not committed this trespass against the LORD: now you have delivered the children of Israel out of the hand of the LORD.
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Psalm 1:3
And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatever he does shall prosper.
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Psalm 15:1-5
Lord, who shall abide in your tabernacle? who shall dwell in your holy hill?
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Psalm 24:3-5
Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place?
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Psalm 101:3,4
I will set no wicked thing before my eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not stick to me.
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Psalm 106:3
Blessed are they that keep judgment, and he that does righteousness at all times.
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Psalm 112:4-8
To the upright there rises light in the darkness: he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.
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Proverbs 2:5-20
Then shall you understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.
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Proverbs 10:2,16
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivers from death.
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Proverbs 11:5,6,18,19,30
The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
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Proverbs 12:28
In the way of righteousness is life: and in the pathway thereof there is no death.
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Proverbs 13:6
Righteousness keeps him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthrows the sinner.
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Proverbs 14:34
Righteousness exalts a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.
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Proverbs 21:3
To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.
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Proverbs 29:7
The righteous considers the cause of the poor: but the wicked regards not to know it.
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Isaiah 28:17
Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
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Isaiah 32:16-18
Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field.
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Isaiah 33:15-17
He that walks righteously, and speaks uprightly; he that despises the gain of oppressions, that shakes his hands from holding of bribes, that stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from seeing evil;
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Isaiah 55:12,13
For you shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
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Isaiah 58:6-14
Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?
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Isaiah 62:1
For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burns.
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Ezekiel 18:5-9
But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right,
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Ezekiel 33:15
If the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.
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Daniel 12:3
And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.
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Hosea 10:12
Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness on you.
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Malachi 3:3
And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer to the LORD an offering in righteousness.
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Malachi 4:2
But to you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and you shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
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Matthew 5:20
For I say to you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.
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Matthew 12:35,50
A good man out of the good treasure of the heart brings forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things.
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Mark 3:33-35
And he answered them, saying, Who is my mother, or my brothers?
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Luke 3:10-14
And the people asked him, saying, What shall we do then?
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Luke 8:15
But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.
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John 3:21,33
But he that does truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are worked in God.
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John 8:47,49
He that is of God hears God's words: you therefore hear them not, because you are not of God.
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John 13:35
By this shall all men know that you are my disciples, if you have love one to another.
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John 14:21-24
He that has my commandments, and keeps them, he it is that loves me: and he that loves me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
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John 15:4,5,8,12
Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can you, except you abide in me.
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Acts 9:36
Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was full of good works and giving of alms which she did.
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Acts 11:29,30
Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief to the brothers which dwelled in Judaea:
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Acts 19:19
Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.
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Romans 5:1-5
Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
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Romans 6:19-22
I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as you have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity to iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness to holiness.
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Romans 7:4-6
Why, my brothers, you also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that you should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit to God.
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Romans 8:4-6
That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
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Romans 14:17-19
For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.
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Romans 15:1-7
We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
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1 Corinthians 4:19,20
But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know, not the speech of them which are puffed up, but the power.
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1 Corinthians 12:3
Why I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.
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1 Corinthians 13:1-13
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
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2 Corinthians 2:17
For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.
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2 Corinthians 7:10,11
For godly sorrow works repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world works death.
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2 Corinthians 9:10
Now he that ministers seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;)
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2 Corinthians 10:5
Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
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2 Corinthians 13:5
Examine yourselves, whether you be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know you not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except you be reprobates?
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Galatians 4:6
And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
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Galatians 5:22,23
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
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Galatians 6:7,8
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatever a man sows, that shall he also reap.
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Ephesians 1:13,14
In whom you also trusted, after that you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that you believed, you were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,
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Ephesians 5:9
(For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)
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Philippians 1:11,27-29
Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
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Philippians 2:13
For it is God which works in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
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Philippians 3:12-14
Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
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Philippians 4:11-13
Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatever state I am, therewith to be content.
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Colossians 1:12,13
Giving thanks to the Father, which has made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:
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Colossians 3:3,5,9-17
For you are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
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1 Thessalonians 1:3,9,10
Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;
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2 Thessalonians 1:3-5
We are bound to thank God always for you, brothers, as it is meet, because that your faith grows exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other abounds;
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1 Timothy 2:9,10
In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with modesty and sobriety; not with braided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;
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1 Timothy 5:9,10
Let not a widow be taken into the number under three score years old, having been the wife of one man.
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2 Timothy 2:22
Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
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2 Timothy 4:6-8
For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.
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Titus 2:2,11,12
That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.
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Titus 3:14
And let our's also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful.
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Philemon 1:5,6
Hearing of your love and faith, which you have toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all saints;
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James 1:27
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
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James 2:14-26
What does it profit, my brothers, though a man say he has faith, and have not works? can faith save him?
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James 3:11-18
Does a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?
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1 Peter 3:1-11,14
Likewise, you wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;
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1 Peter 4:2
That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
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2 Peter 1:5-9
And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
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1 John 2:3-6,10,11,24,29
And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
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1 John 3:3,6,7,9-11,14,17-24
And every man that has this hope in him purifies himself, even as he is pure.
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1 John 4:4-21
You are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
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1 John 5:1-5,10,13,18
Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loves him that begat loves him also that is begotten of him.
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2 John 1:9
Whoever transgresses, and stays not in the doctrine of Christ, has not God. He that stays in the doctrine of Christ, he has both the Father and the Son.
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3 John 1:11
Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that does good is of God: but he that does evil has not seen God.
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Revelation 2:2,3,19
I know your works, and your labor, and your patience, and how you can not bear them which are evil: and you have tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and have found them liars:
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The First Fruits of the Spirit
... are "found in him, not having their own righteousness, but the righteousness which
is ... in the whole course of their words and actions, the genuine fruits of the ...
/.../wesley/sermons on several occasions/sermon 8 the first fruits.htm

The Peaceable Fruits of Sorrows Rightly Borne
... Job as the explanation of his unparalleled pains, while the prologue tells us that
his sufferings were not fruits of his sin, but trials of his righteousness. ...
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Fruits and the Two Works.
... temperance: against such there is no law." We shall describe these fruits separately
by ... the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth ...
//christianbookshelf.org/orr/the gospel day /chapter vi fruits and the.htm

2 Cor. Ix. 10
... Now He that supplied seed to the sower, both minister bread for your food, and multiply
your seed for sowing and increase the fruits of your righteousness [866 ...
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Luther -- the Method and Fruits of Justification
... THE METHOD AND FRUITS OF JUSTIFICATION. ... Neither is it a controversy among the godly,
that man is not justified by works, but righteousness must come from some ...
/.../various/the worlds great sermons volume i/luther the method and.htm

Fifth Sunday after Trinity Exhortation to the Fruits of Faith.
... for righteousness' sake, blessed are ye: and fear not their fear, neither be troubled;
15 but sanctify in your hearts Christ as Lord. EXHORTATION TO THE FRUITS ...
/.../luther/epistle sermons vol iii/fifth sunday after trinity exhortation.htm

The Lord Our Righteousness
... believed! Let all by your fruits know, that the Lord is your righteousness,
and that you are waiting for your Lord from heaven! O ...
/.../whitefield/selected sermons of george whitefield/the lord our righteousness.htm

After the Salutation, the Writer Declares that He Would ...
... Seeing that the divine fruits [1446] of righteousness abound among you, I rejoice
exceedingly and above measure in your happy and honoured spirits, because ye ...
/.../barnabas/the epistle of barnabas /chapter i after the salutation the.htm

Love and Discernment.
... approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till
the day of Christ; being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are ...
/.../thomas/the prayers of st paul/ix love and discernment.htm

Hebrews xii. 13-Nov
... "Nevertheless, afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruits of righteousness to them
which have been exercised thereby." Not "fruit" but "fruits," [3397] a great ...
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