James 3:18

Good News Translation

And goodness is the harvest that is produced from the seeds the peacemakers plant in peace.

Cross References

Psalm 92:14

that still bear fruit in old age and are always green and strong.

Proverbs 11:18

Wicked people do not really gain anything, but if you do what is right, you are certain to be rewarded.

Proverbs 11:28

Those who depend on their wealth will fall like the leaves of autumn, but the righteous will prosper like the leaves of summer.

Proverbs 11:30

Righteousness gives life, but violence takes it away.

Hosea 10:12

I said, ‘Plow new ground for yourselves, plant righteousness, and reap the blessings that your devotion to me will produce. It is time for you to turn to me, your Lord, and I will come and pour out blessings upon you.’

Amos 6:12

Do horses gallop on rocks? Does anyone plow the sea with oxen? Yet you have turned justice into poison, and right into wrong.

Matthew 5:9

“Happy are those who work for peace; God will call them his children!

John 4:36

The one who reaps the harvest is being paid and gathers the crops for eternal life; so the one who plants and the one who reaps will be glad together.

Galatians 6:8

If you plant in the field of your natural desires, from it you will gather the harvest of death; if you plant in the field of the Spirit, from the Spirit you will gather the harvest of eternal life.

Philippians 1:11

Your lives will be filled with the truly good qualities which only Jesus Christ can produce, for the glory and praise of God.

Hebrews 12:11

When we are punished, it seems to us at the time something to make us sad, not glad. Later, however, those who have been disciplined by such punishment reap the peaceful reward of a righteous life.

James 1:20

Human anger does not achieve God's righteous purpose.