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What is it?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"\u201cGod is love\u201d\",\n\"\u201cGod is light\u201d\",\n\"\u201cGod is a spirit\u201d\",\n\"\u201cGod is faithful\u201d\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"1 John 4:8\",\n\"fact\": \"\u201cHe that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.\u201d Love tops the list because it is not a rule \u2014 it is a description of God.\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"According to Jesus in John 13:35, what will show everyone who his disciples are?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"Love for one another\",\n\"Knowing the scriptures\",\n\"Fasting in secret\",\n\"Preaching boldly\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"John 13:35\",\n\"fact\": \"\u201cBy this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.\u201d Not a badge, not an argument \u2014 the first fruit on the list.\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"Romans 5:5 says the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by whom?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"The Holy Ghost\",\n\"The angels\",\n\"The prophets\",\n\"The church\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Romans 5:5\",\n\"fact\": \"This is why the list is called the fruit of the SPIRIT. 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Kindness kept a promise nobody was enforcing.\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"Titus 3:4 says that something of God our Saviour toward man appeared. What?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"The kindness and love\",\n\"The power and glory\",\n\"The patience and mercy\",\n\"The truth and light\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Titus 3:4\",\n\"fact\": \"Kindness is listed as something that appeared \u2014 it showed up in person, where people could see it.\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"Psalm 23:6 says two things shall follow me all the days of my life. 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Which?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"\u201cWent about doing good\u201d\",\n\"\u201cTaught with great power\u201d\",\n\"\u201cWalked among the poor\u201d\",\n\"\u201cPreached the kingdom boldly\u201d\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Acts 10:38\",\n\"fact\": \"Peter's one-line biography of Jesus: \u201cwho went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil.\u201d\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"Fill in the blank: \u201cAnd let us not be weary in ___ : for in due season we shall reap.\u201d\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"well doing\",\n\"waiting\",\n\"praying\",\n\"watching\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Galatians 6:9\",\n\"fact\": \"One chapter after the fruit list, Paul admits the obvious \u2014 goodness gets tiring. 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Same nine qualities, different English. Love comes first, and the eight that follow all read like love worked out in a specific situation &mdash; love when you are kept waiting, love toward someone who does not deserve it, love when nobody is watching. The passage closes with a line people often skip: &#8220;against such there is no law.&#8221; There is no rule anywhere forbidding patience or kindness, which is a quiet joke at the expense of the rule-keeping argument Paul had been answering for five chapters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why does the Bible say &#8220;fruit&#8221; and not &#8220;fruits&#8221; of the Spirit?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Because the original wording is singular, and that is deliberate rather than accidental. Paul writes that the fruit of the Spirit <em>is<\/em> love, joy, peace and the rest &mdash; one piece of fruit, described nine ways, not nine separate items you can pick and choose between. It matters practically. If these were nine gifts handed out individually, you could reasonably say patience is simply not your strength, the way someone might say they are not musical. Treated as one fruit, the nine come together or not at all, and the growing happens in all of them at once. The farming image carries the same point. Fruit does not get assembled on the branch by effort; it appears because the branch stays attached to something alive. Jesus made that explicit in John 15:5: &#8220;I am the vine, ye are the branches&#8230; for without me ye can do nothing.&#8221; The branch&#8217;s only job is to stay connected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What do longsuffering, gentleness, meekness and temperance actually mean?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>These four King James words trip up almost everyone, and one of them is a genuine trap. Longsuffering is patience &mdash; literally suffering long, being slow to snap. Gentleness here means kindness, the practical, useful sort. Meekness is what modern Bibles call gentleness, which is where the confusion comes from: King James &#8220;gentleness&#8221; and King James &#8220;meekness&#8221; map onto the modern &#8220;kindness&#8221; and &#8220;gentleness&#8221; in the opposite order you would expect. Temperance means self-control in general, not just moderation in drink; the underlying idea is holding your own reins. None of the four means weakness. Numbers 12:3 calls Moses the meekest man on the face of the earth, and that is the same Moses who stood in front of Pharaoh and refused to move. 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Before both lists, verse 16 sets the method: &#8220;Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.&#8221; And three verses after, Paul reduces the whole thing to a step rather than a strain: &#8220;If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit&#8221; (Galatians 5:25). Reading all three lists together changes the passage from a character checklist into a description of what being connected to God produces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How can I use this fruit of the Spirit quiz with a class or small group?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The simplest way is out loud. One person holds the phone, reads the question, and lets everyone call out an answer before tapping one; the short note under each answer gives the verse and a one-line story, which is almost always enough to start a real conversation. Each round pulls twelve questions at random from a bank of fifty-five, so you can play several rounds back to back without repeats, and the youth group&#8217;s round will not be the same as the Sunday morning round. It works just as well for a nine-week series &mdash; one fruit a week, with a round at the end &mdash; for a homeschool lesson, or for ten quiet minutes on your own with a coffee and a Bible open to Galatians 5. It is free, there is nothing to sign up for, nothing is saved, and nobody sees your score but you. When you are ready, scroll up and start a round of the fruit of the Spirit trivia above.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bible Trivia The Fruit of the Spirit Most people can name three or four of the nine and then it goes quiet. 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