James 3:18
Good News Translation
And goodness is the harvest that is produced from the seeds the peacemakers plant in peace.

New Revised Standard Version
And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace for those who make peace.

Contemporary English Version
When peacemakers plant seeds of peace, they will harvest justice.

New American Bible
And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace for those who cultivate peace.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the fruit of justice is sown in peace, to them that make peace.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the fruit of justice is sown in peace, to them that make peace.

the fruit.

James 1:20 For the anger of man worketh not the justice of God.

Proverbs 11:18,28,30 Clemency prepareth life: and the pursuing of evil things, death. . . .

Isaiah 32:16,17 An judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and justice shall sit in charmel. . . .

Hosea 10:12 Sow for yourselves in justice, and reap in the mouth of mercy, break up your fallow ground: but the time to seek the Lord is, when he shall come that shall teach you justice.

Matthew 5:9 Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.

John 4:36 And he that reapeth receiveth wages and gathereth fruit unto life everlasting: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.

Philippians 1:11 Filled with the fruit of justice, through Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.

Hebrews 12:11 Now all chastisement for the present indeed seemeth not to bring with it joy, but sorrow: but afterwards it will yield to them that are exercised by it the most peaceable fruit of justice.

make.

Matthew 5:9 Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.

Context
The Wisdom from Above
17But the wisdom that is from above, first indeed is chaste, then peaceable, modest, easy to be persuaded, consenting to the good, full of mercy and good fruits, without judging, without dissimulation. 18And the fruit of justice is sown in peace, to them that make peace.
Cross References
Psalm 92:14
They shall still increase in a fruitful old age: and shall be well treated,

Proverbs 11:18
Clemency prepareth life: and the pursuing of evil things, death.

Isaiah 32:17
And the work of justice shall be peace, and the service of justice quietness, and security for ever.

Hosea 10:12
Sow for yourselves in justice, and reap in the mouth of mercy, break up your fallow ground: but the time to seek the Lord is, when he shall come that shall teach you justice.

Amos 6:12
For behold the Lord hath commanded, and he will strike the greater house with breaches, and the lesser house with clefts.

Galatians 6:8
For what things a man shall sow, those also shall he reap. For he that soweth in his flesh of the flesh also shall reap corruption. But he that soweth in the spirit of the spirit shall reap life everlasting.

Philippians 1:11
Filled with the fruit of justice, through Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.

James 3:17
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