 Perhaps the most prominent of these attitudinal phenomena is joy (chairein, chara, and to a much lesser extent agalliasthai, agalliasis). It is especially prominent in the writings of the apostle Paul, who includes joy in his list of the “fruit of the [Holy] Spirit” in Galatians 5:22–3. The idea seems to be that when joy is a fruit of the Spirit, it is about what God has done, God’s identity or attributes, or the believer’s relation to God. That is, the “content” of the joy is a theological belief. Strikingly, the object of joy sometimes includes suffering. For example, the Acts of the Apostles (chapter 5) reports that the apostles had been gaining a considerable following in Jerusalem and the high priest reacted by throwing them in prison. They escaped, and the next day they were back preaching and teaching. The authorities picked them up again and warned them to stop their public activities, but the apostles were defiant, saying that God had ordered them to do this. So they were flogged and again admonished to cease their activities. “As [the apostles] left the council, they rejoiced (chairontes) that they were considered worthy to suffer dishonor for the sake of the name [of Jesus]” (Acts 5:41; New Revised Standard Version; hereafter all New Testament quotations are from this translation. See also Romans 5:3 and Colossians 1:24). These instances of joy are thoroughly theological, for the believer’s joy is about his or her service to and identification with Jesus, the Son of God.