James 3:18

righteousness

( See Scofield) - (1 John 3:7).

Related Commentaries of James 3:18

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And the fruit of righteousness - That which the righteousness here referred to produces, or that which is the effect of true religion. The meanin...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

(10) And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace. (10) Because the world persuades itself that they are miserable who li...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Who is enlightened among you, and a man of knowledge? Let him exhibit the fruits of it by a noble life, with the humility that true enlightenment bri...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

righteousness . App-191. of . by, or for. No preposition. Dative case.
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

18 And the fruit of righteousness. This admits of two meanings, — that fruit is sown by the peaceable, which afterwards they gather, — or, th...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace. And the fruit of righteousness is sown - The whole is the principle of right...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

The fruit of righteousness is sown in peace— "The word σπειρεται, rendered is sown, imports, says Parkhurst, the labour, attention, or pains empl...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace. 'The peaceable fruit of righteousness.' Righteousness is itself the t...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Control of the Tongue 1, 2. Warning against undue eagerness to teach: cp. Matthew 12:37 ; Matthew 23:7 ; Romans 2:19-20 ; 1 Corinthians 12...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Of them that make peace ] better, 'by peacemakers.' The wise man is a peacemaker who sows good seed that in God's time will bear precious fruit. To...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

And the fruit of righteousness... — Better thus slightly altered: And fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by them that make peace. They “shal...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Chapter 17 THE WISDOM THAT IS FROM ABOVE. James 3:17-18 AT the beginning of his Epistle St. James exhorts those of his readers who feel their...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Seek Wisdom from Above James 3:13-18 The true wisdom is not the child of the intellect, but of the heart. It consists not only in what we know,...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The writer now proceeded to show the effect of faith on speech. Beginning with the warning against every man setting up to teach, he proceeded to dea...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(15) This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. (16) For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evi...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

REFLECTIONS Precious Lord Jesus! how sweetly doth this Chapter bring to my recollection thy tender, and endearing precept, to call no man master upo...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the fruit of righteousness ,.... Which is either eternal life, which is the fruit of Christ's righteousness, and shall be enjoyed by all those w...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace. Ver. 18. Is sown in peace ] Only we must not think to sow and reap all i...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

And the fruit of righteousness , &c. The principle productive of this righteousness, is sown, like good seed, in the peace of a believer's mind,...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Here we begin a fourth division of the book, which continues to the end of Ch.4; in which our walk is tested by the circumstances of the world. Certa...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Properties of Wisdom. A. D. 61. 13 Who is...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

And the fruit of righteousness; either the fruit we bring forth, which is righteousness itself, Luke 3:8,9 Ro 6:22 Philippians 1:11 ; or the f...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

What Is Required Therefore Is Not Earthly Wisdom But Wisdom From Above ( James 3:13-18 ) Having warned against the unruly tongue, James now explai...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without variance, with...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES James 3:13 . Good conversation. —Or, his “good life”; “good conduct.” The usual New Testament idea of “conversatio...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

James 3:1 . Be not many masters: διδασκαλοι, teachers. In some assemblies they might all prophesy one by one, but no man should be too forward; he...
The Biblical Illustrator

The wisdom that is from above is first pure Characteristics of heavenly wisdom I. IT IS HALLOWED. On the spirit of the man who has it there has...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION James 3:1-59 WARNING AGAINST OVER - READINESS TO TEACH , LEADING TO A DISCOURSE ON THE IMPORTANCE OF GO...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Warning against strife:
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace. The apostle now makes a direct application of the lessons contained in th...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Hebrews 12:11 ; Hosea 10:12 ; Isaiah 32:16 ; Isaiah 32:17 ; James 1:20 ; John 4:36 ; Matthew 5:9 ; Philippians 1:11 ; Proverbs 11:18 ; Prov...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

And the principle productive of this righteousness is sown, like good seed, in the peace of a believer's mind, and brings forth a plentiful harvest...

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

Related Commentaries of James 3:18

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

James 3:18