Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
And the fruit of righteousness is planted in peace for those who make peace.
New American Standard Bible
And the
King James Version
And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
Holman Bible
And the fruit of righteousness
International Standard Version
And a harvest of righteousness is grown from the seed of peace planted by peacemakers.
A Conservative Version
And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace to those who make peace.
American Standard Version
And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace for them that make peace.
Amplified
And the seed whose fruit is righteousness (spiritual maturity) is sown in peace by those who make peace [by actively encouraging goodwill between individuals].
An Understandable Version
[People who are] peacemakers sow [seeds of] peace and it produces a crop of righteousness [in the lives of others].
Anderson New Testament
And those who cultivate peace, sow for themselves a harvest of righteousness in peace.
Common New Testament
And the harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.
Daniel Mace New Testament
they who cultivate peace, enjoy the reward of their virtue.
Darby Translation
But the fruit of righteousness in peace is sown for them that make peace.
Godbey New Testament
But the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace to those who are making peace.
Goodspeed New Testament
The harvest uprightness yields must be sown in peace, by peacemakers.
John Wesley New Testament
without partiality and without dissimulation, And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace for them that make peace.
Julia Smith Translation
And the fruit of justice is sown in peace by those making peace.
King James 2000
And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by them that make peace.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace among those who make peace.
Modern King James verseion
And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Yea, and the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace, of them that maintain peace.
Moffatt New Testament
and the peacemakers who sow in peace reap righteousness.
Montgomery New Testament
And the fruit of righteousness is being sown in peace by those who are working peace.
NET Bible
And the fruit that consists of righteousness is planted in peace among those who make peace.
New Heart English Bible
Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.
Noyes New Testament
And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.
Sawyer New Testament
And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace to those who make peace.
The Emphasized Bible
And, in harvest of righteousness, with peace, is sown by them that make peace.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
But the fruit of righteousness in peace is sown for those who are peacemakers.
Twentieth Century New Testament
And righteousness, its fruit, is sown in peace by those who work for peace.
Webster
And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by them that make peace.
Weymouth New Testament
And peace, for those who strive for peace, is the seed of which the harvest is righteousness.
Williams New Testament
The harvest of uprightness is grown from the seed of peace by those who are peacemakers.
World English Bible
Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.
Worrell New Testament
And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those making peace.
Worsley New Testament
And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace for those that promote peace.
Youngs Literal Translation
and the fruit of the righteousness in peace is sown to those making peace.
Interlinear
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Word Count of 37 Translations in James 3:18
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Wisdom That Comes Down From Above
17 But the wisdom which is from heaven is first holy, then gentle, readily giving way in argument, full of peace and mercy and good works, not doubting, not seeming other than it is. 18 And the fruit of righteousness is planted in peace for those who make peace.
Cross References
Proverbs 11:18
The sinner gets the payment of deceit; but his reward is certain who puts in the seed of righteousness.
Matthew 5:9
Happy are the peacemakers: for they will be named sons of God.
Hosea 10:12
Put in the seed of righteousness, get in your grain in mercy, let your unploughed earth be turned up: for it is time to make search for the Lord, till he comes and sends righteousness on you like rain.
Philippians 1:11
Being full of the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
Proverbs 11:28
He who puts his faith in wealth will come to nothing; but the upright man will be full of growth like the green leaf.
Proverbs 11:30
The fruit of righteousness is a tree of life, but violent behaviour takes away souls.
Isaiah 32:16-17
Then in the waste land there will be an upright rule, and righteousness will have its place in the fertile field.
Amos 6:12
Is it possible for horses to go running on the rock? may the sea be ploughed with oxen? for the right to be turned by you into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into a bitter plant?
John 4:36
He who does the cutting now has his reward; he is getting together fruit for eternal life, so that he who did the planting and he who gets in the grain may have joy together.
Galatians 6:8
Because he who puts in the seed of the flesh will of the flesh get the reward of death; but he who puts in the seed of the Spirit will of the Spirit get the reward of eternal life.
Hebrews 12:11
At the time all punishment seems to be pain and not joy: but after, those who have been trained by it get from it the peace-giving fruit of righteousness.
James 1:20
For the righteousness of God does not come about by the wrath of man.