Righteousness in All Things
A. Maclaren, D. D. Ephesians 5:9 (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;) Just as the quality of life may be as perfect in the minutest animalculae, of which there may be millions in a cubic inch, and generations may die in an hour — just as perfect in the smallest insect as in "behemoth, biggest born of earth"; so righteousness may be as completely embodied, as perfectly set forth, as fully operative in the tiniest action that I can do as in the largest that an immortal spirit can be set to perform. The circle that is in a gnat's eye is as true a circle as the one that holds within its sweep all the stars; and the sphere that a dewdrop makes is as perfect a sphere as that of the world. All duties are the same which are done from the same motive; all acts which are not so done are alike sins. (A. Maclaren, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;) WEB: for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,