James 1:15 This wisdom descends not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. 16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
James 1:5 Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindles! 6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell. 7 For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:
James 1:8 But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. 9 Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God. 10 Out of the same mouth proceeds blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. 14 But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
This does not mean that in every single instance the peace that the Christian seeks would become reality nor does it mean that peace must be purchased by compromising truth and principle. What it means is that, as the ambassadors of Christ we are to seek out ways and means that will be in harmony with methods Christ employed that would make God happy to call us His children. In other words, peace is to be sown by the Christian as a seed, which in turn will certainly spring up, and bear corresponding fruit to God’s honor and glory in the overwhelming majority of cases.
James 3: 17 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. 18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
May The Lord add His blessing to the study of His word. God bless!