James 3:18
And so the fruit of justice is sown in peace by those who make peace.
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In The King James Version
And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
In Context
Cross References
Proverbs 11:28Whoever trusts in his riches will fall. But the just shall spring up like a green leaf.
Isaiah 32:16And judgment will live in solitude, and justice will be seated in a fruitful place.
Amos 6:12For behold, the Lord has commanded, and he will strike the greater house with catastrophes, and the lesser house with divisions.
John 4:36For he who reaps, receives wages and gathers fruit unto eternal life, so that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.
Philippians 1:11filled with the fruit of justice, through Jesus Christ, in the glory and praise of God.
James 1:20For the anger of man does not accomplish the justice 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 →