James 3:18 Meaning and Explanation
“And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.”
King James Version (KJV)
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What Does James 3:18 Mean?
James closes the chapter with a harvest image. The fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace. The right and good life God desires grows like a crop, and the soil in which it is sown is peace, tended by the peacemakers.
Where the earthly wisdom sowed confusion, the wisdom from above sows peace, and from that peace righteousness springs up. Those who make peace are themselves the sowers, and they reap a harvest of right living. Jesus blessed the peacemakers and called them children of God, and here their work bears fruit. The reader is left with a vision of the gentle, peaceable life as fertile ground, where the seeds of righteousness, planted in peace, grow into a harvest pleasing to God.
James 3:18 in the Original Language
karpos (καρπός), 'fruit' -- fruit, the produce or result that grows from a source.
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What does James 3:18 mean?
The fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.