James 3:18 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

[People who are] peacemakers sow [seeds of] peace and it produces a crop of righteousness [in the lives of others].

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And the harvest of righteousness (of conformity to God's will in thought and deed) is [the fruit of the seed] sown in peace by those who work for and make peace [in themselves and in others, that peace which means concord, agreement, and harmony between individuals, with undisturbedness, in a peaceful mind free from fears and agitating passions and moral conflicts].

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

Those who make peace sow the seeds of justice by their peaceful acts.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And so the fruit of justice is sown in peace by those who make peace.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

James 3:18 Cross References

Matthew 5:9

“Those persons who attempt to make peace [between people] are blessed because they will be called God’s children.

John 4:36

Already the person who is harvesting [the crop] is being paid for his work, and is gathering a crop for never ending life, so that the one planting and the one harvesting [the crop] may rejoice together.

Galatians 6:8

If he engages in things to satisfy his own sinful desires, he will be [spiritually] destroyed for such conduct, but the one who engages in things to please the Holy Spirit will receive never ending life through the [same] Spirit [as a result].

Philippians 1:11

having been full of qualities of righteousness, which come from Jesus Christ and produce honor and praise to God.

Hebrews 12:11

No discipline seems pleasant, but painful, at the time [it is received], yet later on it produces a crop of peace and righteousness in [the lives of] those who have been trained by it.

James 1:20

For the anger of people does not produce what God considers to be right.