EGW WritingsJames 3

Selected Messages Book 2

A Repetition of Early Fanaticism

2SM 33.2

I have been instructed to say to those in Indiana who are advocating strange doctrines, You are giving a wrong mold to the precious and important work of God. Keep within the bounds of the Bible. Take Christ’s lessons, and repeat them over and over again. Remember that “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. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace” (James 3:17, 18).

Lift Him Up

In Meekness Feed the Lambs, July 30

LHU 225.1

And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace. James 3:18.

Manuscript Releases, vol. 6 [Nos. 347-418]

The Gifts of the Spirit

6MR 56.1

“The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.” (Galatians 5:22, 23.) “The fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.” (James 3:18.)—Letter 1c, 1890, pp. 7, 8. (To Brethren Atwood and Pratt,” May 28, 1890.)

Ye Shall Receive Power

Feeling Our Spiritual Need, October 7

YRP 289.4

This is our great need today in every church in our land. For “if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new” (2 Corinthians 5:17). That which was objectionable in the character is purified from the soul by the love of Jesus. All selfishness is expelled, all envy, all evil-speaking, is rooted out, and a radical transformation is wrought in the heart. “The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law” (Galatians 5:22, 23). “The fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace” (James 3:18).

Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 14 (1899)

Ms 27, 1899

14LtMs, Ms 27, 1899, par. 22

A life of conformity to the Christ-life cannot be a life of disobedience to God’s commands. In answering his own question, the lawyer said, “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul; and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbor as thyself.” “Thou hast answered right,” Christ said, “this do, and thou shalt live.” [Luke 10:25-28.] Sin cannot reign in the life of the one who loves God supremely. Love to God is the fruit borne by obedience. Christ is not at war with Christ, and love to our neighbor prevents us from working ill to him. “The fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.” [James 3:18.] The law of God lays its claims upon the whole man. There is no period of time when the law does not make this demand upon every son and daughter of Adam.