James 3:18

And the fruits of righteousness are sown in stillness, by them who make peace.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

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

In Context

17But the wisdom which is from above, is pure, and full of peace, and mild, and submissive, and full of compassion and of good fruits, and without partiality, and without respect of persons.

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Cross References

John 4:36And he that reapeth, receiveth wages, and gathereth fruits unto life eternal; and the sower and the reaper equally rejoice.

Philippians 1:11and be full of the fruits of righteousness which are by Jesus the Messiah, to the praise and glory of God.

James 1:20for the wrath of man worketh not 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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