33 Bible Verses about Fruits Of Righteousness

For I tell you that unless your uprightness is far superior to that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never even enter the Kingdom of Heaven!

A good man, out of the good he has accumulated, brings out things that are good, and a bad man, out of what he has accumulated that is bad, brings out things that are bad.

Whoever is sprung from God listens to God's words. The reason you refuse to listen is that you are not sprung from God."

Jesus answered, "Anyone who loves me will observe my teaching, and my Father will love him and we will come to him and live with him.

You must remain united to me and I will remain united to you. Just as no branch can bear fruit by itself unless it remains united to the vine, you cannot unless you remain united to me. I am the vine, you are the branches. Anyone who remains united to me, with me united to him, will be very fruitful, for you cannot do anything apart from me.

I use these familiar human terms because of the limitations of your nature. For just as you before gave up the parts of your bodies in slavery to vice and greater and greater license, you must now give them up in slavery to uprightness, which leads to consecration. For when you were slaves of sin, you were free as far as uprightness was concerned. What good did you get from doing the things you are now ashamed of? Why, they result in death!read more.
But now that you have been freed from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you get is consecration, and the final result is eternal life.

so that the requirement of the Law might be fully met in our case, since we live not on the physical but on the spiritual plane.

For to be physically minded means death, but to be spiritually minded means life and peace.

The Kingdom of God is not a matter of what we eat or drink, but of uprightness, peace, and happiness through the possession of the holy Spirit. Whoever serves Christ in that way pleases God and gains the approval of men.

So if anyone is in union with Christ, he is a new being; the old state of things has passed away; there is a new state of things.

He who supplies the sower with seed and so with bread to eat will supply you with seed, and multiply it and enlarge the harvest of your uprightness.

I destroy arguments and every obstacle that is raised against the knowledge of God, and I take captive every thought and make it obey Christ,

But what the Spirit produces is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. There is no law against such things!

Do not be deceived. God is not to be sneered at. A man will reap just what he sows. The man who sows to gratify his physical cravings will reap destruction from them, and the man who sows to benefit the spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.

for light leads to perfect goodness, uprightness, and truth;

with your lives filled with the fruits which uprightness produces through Jesus Christ, to the honor and praise of God.

Whatever happens, show yourselves citizens worthy of the good news of the Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am kept away and only hear news of you, I may know that you are standing firm with one spirit, one purpose, fighting side by side for faith in the good news. Never for a moment falter before your opponents, for your fearlessness will be a sure sign for them of their coming destruction, but to you it will be an omen, from God himself, of your deliverance.

For it is God who in his good will is at work in your hearts, inspiring your will and your action.

and have put on that new self newly made in the likeness of its Creator, to know him fully.

Fly from the cravings of youth, and go in pursuit of uprightness, faith, love, and peace, in company with those who call upon the Lord with pure hearts.

Now the crown of uprightness awaits me, which the Lord, the upright judge, will award me on that Day, and not only me but also all who have loved and hoped for his appearing.

and I pray that through coming to know every good thing about us as Christians they may effectually share your faith.

Does a spring pour forth fresh and brackish water from the same crevice? Can a fig tree produce olives, my brothers, or a grape vine figs? A salt spring cannot give fresh water. What wise, intelligent man is there among you? Let him show by his good life that what he does is done in the humility of wisdom.read more.
But if you cherish bitter feelings of jealousy and rivalry in your hearts, do not pride yourselves on it and thus belie the truth. Such wisdom does not come from above. It is earthly, animal, demon-like. For wherever jealousy and rivalry exist, there will be confusion and every low action. The wisdom that is from above is first of all pure, then peaceable, considerate, willing to yield, full of compassion and good deeds, whole-hearted, straightforward. The harvest uprightness yields must be sown in peace, by peacemakers.

For this very reason make every effort to supplement your faith with goodness, goodness with knowledge, knowledge with self-control, self-control with steadfastness, steadfastness with piety, piety with a spirit of brotherhood, and the spirit of brotherhood with love.read more.
For if you have these qualities in their fulness, they will make you neither idle nor unproductive when it comes to the understanding of our Lord Jesus Christ. For whoever lacks these qualities is blind or near-sighted, and has forgotten that he has been cleansed from his former sins.

This is how we can be sure that we know him??y obeying his commands. Whoever says, "I know him," but does not obey his commands, is a liar, and there is no truth in his heart; but whoever obeys his message really has the love of God in perfection in his heart. This is the way we can be sure that we are in union with him;read more.
whoever says, "I am always in union with him" must live just as he lived.

Whoever loves his brother is always in the light and puts no hindrance in anyone's way. But whoever hates his brother is in darkness, and is living in darkness, and he does not know where he is going, for the darkness has blinded his eyes.

Keep what you have heard from the beginning in your hearts; then you will always be in union with the Son and the Father.

If you know that he is upright, you may be sure that everyone who acts uprightly is his child.

And everyone who possesses this hope in him tries to make himself as pure as he is.

No one who keeps in union with him sins. Anyone who sins has never seen him or come to know him. Dear children, let no one mislead you; whoever acts uprightly is upright, just as he is upright.

No one who is a child of God commits sin, for God's nature remains in his heart, and he cannot sin, because he is a child of God.

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love our brothers. Anyone who does not love is still in death.

and we obtain from him whatever we ask for, because we are obeying his commands and doing the things that please him.