James 3:18 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁸ And the harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

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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

Psalm 92:14

They still bring forth fruit in old age, they are ever full of sap and green,

Proverbs 11:18

A wicked man earns deceptive wages, but one who sows righteousness gets a sure reward.

Proverbs 11:28

He who trusts in his riches will wither, but the righteous will flourish like a green leaf.

Proverbs 11:30

The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, but lawlessness takes away lives.

Hosea 10:12

Sow for yourselves righteousness, reap the fruit of steadfast love; break up your fallow ground, for it is the time to seek the Lord, that he may come and rain salvation upon you.

Amos 6:12

Do horses run upon rocks? Does one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood—

Matthew 5:9

“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.

John 4:36

He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together.

Galatians 6:8

For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption; but he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

Philippians 1:11

filled with the fruits of righteousness which come through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

Hebrews 12:11

For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant; later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

James 1:20

for the anger of man does not work the righteousness of God.