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].

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.