The First Fruit is Essential to all the other Fruit of the Spirit of Christ

Galatians 5:22-23

"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."

Notice the first fruit in that list of fruit of the Spirit is love. Without love none of the other fruit can exist.

If someone is consistently unkind we know they cannot have the fruit of the Spirit because the very first fruit of the Spirit of Christ in a believer is "love."

To repeat: None of the other fruit of the Spirit of Christ can exist without that very first one!