James 3:18
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 intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Peacemakers who sow in peace reap the fruit of righteousness.
- KJV
- And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
- WEB
- Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.
- ASV
- And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace for them that make peace.
- DARBY
- But [the] fruit of righteousness in peace is sown for them that make peace.
- BLB
- And the fruit of righteousness in peace is sown by those making peace.
- ÅB
- Men rettferdighets frukt såes i fred for dem som holder fred.
- OTB
- De som fremmer fred, sår fredens frø og høster en rettferdighetens høst.
- B1930
- Men rettferdighets frukt såes i fred for dem som holder fred.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Matthew 5:9
Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
Read in contextHosea 10:12
Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.
Read in contextPhilippians 1:11
Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
Read in contextIsaiah 32:16–17
Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field.
Read in contextGalatians 6:8
For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
Read in contextProverbs 11:30
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise.
Read in contextProverbs 11:18
The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward.
Read in contextJohn 4:36
And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.
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