Romans 7:4 (NRSV) In the same way, my friends, you have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead in order that we may bear fruit for God.
Galatians 5:22 (NRSV) The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness.
James 3:17 (NRSV) But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without a trace of partiality or hypocrisy.
"Obedience is the fruit of faith; patience, the bloom on the fruit."—Christina Rosetti
Quoted in Streams in the Desert. Christianity Today, Vol. 43, no. 7, Today's Best Illustrations – Volume 5, (Carol Stream, IL: Christianity Today, 1997), WORDsearch CROSS e-book, Under: "FRUIT".
