James 3:18
Peacemakers who sow in peace reap the fruit of righteousness.
Majority Standard Bible
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 will fall, but the righteous will thrive like foliage.
Isaiah 32:16Then justice will inhabit the wilderness, and righteousness will dwell in the fertile field.
Amos 6:12“Do horses gallop on the cliffs? Does one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood—
John 4:36Already the reaper draws his wages and gathers a crop for eternal life, so that both the sower and the reaper may rejoice together.
Philippians 1:11filled with the fruits of righteousness that come through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
James 1:20for man’s anger does not bring about the righteousness that God desires.
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 →