Five Fall Favorites
Day 2
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
Galatians 5:22-23 NASB1995
joy... as defined by the Webster's 1828 Dictionary:
The passion or emotion excited by the acquisition or expectation of good; that excitement of pleasurable feelings which is caused by success, good fortune, the gratification of desire or some good possessed, or by a rational prospect of possessing what we love or desire; gladness; exultation; exhilaration of spirits. A glorious and triumphant state.
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goodness ... as defined by the Webster's 1828 Dictionary:
The state of being good; the physical qualities which constitute value, excellence or perfection; as the goodness of timber; the goodness of a soil. The moral qualities which constitute Christian excellence; moral virtue; religion. Kindness; benevolence; benignity of heart; but more generally, acts of kindness; charity; humanity exercised. Kindness; benevolence of nature; mercy.
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