James 3:18 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

James 3:18 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Matthew 5:9
Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
Hosea 10:12
Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.
Philippians 1:11
Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
Galatians 6:8
For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
Isaiah 32:16-17
Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 13-18)

As the sins before condemned arise from an affectation of being thought more wise than others, and being endued with more knowledge than they, so the apostle in these verses shows the difference between men’s pretending to be wise and their being really so, and between the wisdom which is from beneath (from earth or hell) and that which is from above. I. We have some account of true wisdom, with t…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 18)

18. “The peaceable fruit of righteousness.” He says “righteousness”; because it is itself the true wisdom. As in the case of the earthly wisdom, after the characteristic description came its results; so in this verse, in the case of the heavenly wisdom. There the results were present; here, future. fruit ... sown--Compare Psa 97:11; Is 61:3, “trees of righteousness.” Anticipatory, that is, the see…