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James 3:18

Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those making peace.

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.

In Context

17But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.

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Cross References

John 4:36And he who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit unto eternal life, that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.

Philippians 1:11having been filled with the fruit of righteousness which comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God. 1 The Advance of the Gospel

James 1:20for the wrath of man does not produce 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 →

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