James 3:18
Those who sow peace will harvest the peace of what is truly good and right.
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In The King James Version
And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
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Cross References
Proverbs 11:28If you trust in your riches, you'll fall; but if you do good, you'll flourish like green leaves.
Isaiah 32:16Then people living in the desert will practice justice, and those living among the fields will do what is right.
Amos 6:12Can horses gallop over rocks? Can oxen plow the sea? But you have turned justice into poison, and the fruit of doing good into bitterness!
John 4:36The reaper is being paid and harvesting a crop for eternal life so that both the sower and the reaper can celebrate.
Philippians 1:11filled with the fruits of living right that come through Jesus Christ and give glory and praise to God.
James 1:20because human anger doesn't reflect the good character 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 →