James 3:18
Justice is the harvest peacemakers will reap from seeds sown in a spirit of peace.
Open English Bible (UK)
In The King James Version
And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
In Context
Cross References
Amos 6:12Do horses gallop on crags? Does one plough the sea with oxen? Yet you turn justice into poison weed, and the fruit of righteousness into bitter wormwood.
John 4:36Already the reaper is receiving wages and gathering in sheaves for eternal life, so that sower and reaper rejoice together.
Philippians 1:11bearing a rich harvest of that righteousness which comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
James 1:20for human anger does not forward the righteous purpose 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 →