James 3:18
And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace to those who make peace.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
In Context
Cross References
Proverbs 11:28He who trusts in his riches shall fall, but the righteous shall flourish as the green leaf.
Isaiah 32:16Then justice shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness shall abide in the fruitful field.
Amos 6:12Shall horses run upon the rock? Will [a man] plow [there] with oxen? That ye have turned justice into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,
John 4:36And he who reaps receives a wage and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.
Philippians 1:11having been filled with fruits of righteousness, through Jesus Christ, for glory and praise of God.
James 1:20For the wrath of man does not accomplish the righteousness of God.
Matthew Henry on James 3:14-18
Properties of Wisdom. ( a. d. 61.) 13 Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him show out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. 14 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. 15 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. 16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. 17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be… Read the whole commentary →