"22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law."
The fruit, not the works, will say more to us than anything else about someone, we discern them by the Holy Spirit in us. I have known many people who say they are Christians, even proclaiming they have the gift of the Spirit, but their character had no evidence of this fruit.
We do not get the fruit of the Spirit by saying we have them, by pretending we have them or even trying to fake them. This fruit comes by the power of the Holy Spirit. Many who think they have them do not, we know because of the anger and rebellion against God's Word that they display on a regular basis. We know them too for their disrespect for particular brothers and sisters who are more open and prone to telling the truth.
No one who has the fruit of God's Spirit will be angry to hear the Word of God, nor will they target an individual for mocking, demeaning or ruining their lives because they don't like what they hear.
There is no fruit in those who are covertly or overtly harming a brother or sister in Christ. Targeting others for attack is evidence there has not been a born again experience.
1 John 3:13-15 "…13 So do not be surprised, brothers, if the world hates you. 14 We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers. The one who does not love remains in death. 15 Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that eternal life does not reside in a murderer.…"
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