And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.
Sow for yourselves righteousness; reap steadfast love; break up your fallow ground, for it is the time to seek the Lord, that he may come and rain righteousness upon you.
filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
Then justice will dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness abide in the fruitful field. And the effect of righteousness will be peace, and the result of righteousness, quietness and trust forever.
For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and whoever captures souls is wise.
For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
The wicked earns deceptive wages, but one who sows righteousness gets a sure reward.
for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.
Already the one who reaps is receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together.
Do horses run on rocks? Does one plow there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood—
Whoever trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous will flourish like a green leaf.
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