King James Version
James 3:18 in the King James Version says “And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.” — study this verse from James chapter 3 with commentary, cross-references, and original Greek word analysis.
“And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.”
James 3:18 · KJV
For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. confusion: Gr. tumult or unquietness
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure , then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. partiality: or, wrangling
And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“of righteousness”
G1343equity (of character or act); specially (christian) justification
“of them that make”
G4160to make or do (in a very wide application, more or less direct)
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