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Thank you both so very much for your beautiful posts about the fruits of the Spirit!

All I can add is that the fruits are from Christ and are brought forth through us by the working of the indwelling Spirit. IOW, the fruit comes not by action but rather passively by submission:

Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. I am the vine, ye [are] the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. – John 15:4-5

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. – Galatians 5:22-23