Ephesians 5:8-10 ” For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light (for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth) and find out what pleases the Lord.”

We first hear about the comparison of fruit & our behavior as Believers in Jesus’ Parable of the Tree and its Fruit in Matthew 7:16-20. As He explained, fruit is either good or bad and easily recognizable. But as Paul stressed here, it is not our job to be “fruit inspectors” of others, but to constantly evaluate and ascertain if our lives are producing good fruit. Do we demonstrate peace and joy, or strife and division? Are we filled with patience and kindness, or greed and destruction of the faith? Galatians 5:20 sums it up well, “By their fruit you will recognize them.”