The wicked person earns an empty wage, but the one who sows righteousness, a true reward.
James 3:18 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who cultivate peace. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
The wicked person earns an empty wage, but the one who sows righteousness, a true reward.
Anyone trusting in his riches will fall, but the righteous will flourish like foliage.
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, but a cunning person takes lives.
Sow righteousness for yourselves and reap faithful love; break up your unploughed ground. It is time to seek the Lord until he comes and sends righteousness on you like the rain.
Do horses gallop on the cliffs? Does anyone plough there with oxen? Yet you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood –
The reaper is already receiving pay and gathering fruit for eternal life, so that the sower and reaper can rejoice together.
because the one who sows to his flesh will reap destruction from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.
filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God.
No discipline seems enjoyable at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.