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Renaissance artists sometimes pictured self-control as a woman mixing water and wine, turning an abstract virtue into a visible act of moderation.
Fruits of the spirit Word Search
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gentlenessFind to reveal
Paul's group is called gentle in some Bible translations and infants in others, because ancient Greek copies differ by one letter.
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Galatia took its name from Celtic Gauls who invaded Asia Minor around 278 BC, settling in modern central Turkey.
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The Greek makrothumia literally means long-tempered, the slow fuse that refuses to flare up against people.
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An early writer welcomed calling Christians Chrestians: the mistake echoed a Greek word for kindness, turning scorn into a compliment.
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The Good Samaritan's hero belongs to a community at odds with Jesus' listeners, making kindness cross a familiar religious divide.
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Isaiah's peaceful animal scene pairs the wolf with the lamb, rather than the lion-and-lamb pairing often remembered from pictures and sayings.
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Paul uses a singular word for fruit, then lists several qualities, picturing a shared harvest rather than separately named crops.
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Love poetry in the Song of Songs compares hair to goats descending a mountain, making an unexpectedly farmyard compliment.
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Rejoice always has just two words in Greek, while Jesus wept has three, reversing the short-verse comparison familiar to English readers.
True stories · Munich, Germany
The hardest handshake
In her later account of a 1947 meeting in a church basement in Munich, Germany, Corrie ten Boom had just finished speaking about God's forgiveness when a man stepped forward with his hand out. She recognized him at once: a former guard from Ravensbruck, the camp where her sister Betsie had died. He said he had become a Christian and asked Corrie to forgive him. For a long moment she could not lift her arm; the memory of the camp stood between them. Praying silently for help, she finally reached out and took his hand. She later wrote that a strange warmth seemed to flood her in that instant. The former prisoner and the former guard stood there, hands clasped.
Joy is the serious business of Heaven.
C. S. Lewis
Trivia
In which New Testament letter does Paul list the fruit of the Spirit?
Galatians (chapter 5, verses 22 to 23).
Is the word fruit in Galatians 5:22 singular or plural in the original Greek?
Singular (karpos).
Paul contrasts the fruit of the Spirit with what opposite category earlier in the same chapter?
The works of the flesh.
How many qualities are named as the fruit of the Spirit in Galatians?
Nine.
The region of Galatia was named after migrating people from which European group?
Celts, specifically Gauls.
Trivia · 1 / 5
In which New Testament letter does Paul list the fruit of the Spirit?
Galatians (chapter 5, verses 22 to 23).
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A swap in the death block
In July 1941, at Auschwitz near Oswiecim, Poland, guards chose ten men to starve in a bunker after a prisoner escaped. One of the condemned, Franciszek Gajowniczek, cried out for his wife and children. A Franciscan friar named Maximilian Kolbe stepped from the lines and quietly asked to take the man's place. The commander agreed. After surviving the starvation bunker, Kolbe was killed by an injection on August 14, 1941; Gajowniczek survived the war and lived into his nineties. For decades afterward he traveled to tell the story of the stranger who chose to die so he could go home. The exchange left him with a life in which to remember the man who took his place.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
1 Corinthians 13:4 (NIV)
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Sources: 1 Corinthians 13:4 to 7 (Bible Gateway, NIV) · Corrie ten Boom on forgiveness (Guideposts) · Franciszek Gajowniczek and Maximilian Kolbe (Auschwitz Memorial) · Galatians (people) and the Gaulish settlement (Wikipedia)
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