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

¹⁸ [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

¹⁸ And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ 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)

¹⁸ And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace for them that make peace.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ Those who make peace sow the seeds of justice by their peaceful acts.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ And so the fruit of justice is sown in peace by those who make peace.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁸ 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.