James 5:8

Be ye also patient. Establish your hearts, because the coming of the Lord has approached.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.

In Context

7Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient for it, until it receives the early and latter rain.

9Do not grumble, brothers, against each other, so that ye not be judged. Behold, the judge stands before the doors.

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Cross References

Psalms 27:14Wait for LORD. Be strong, and let thy heart take courage. Yea, wait thou for LORD.

Psalms 40:1I waited patiently for LORD, and he inclined to me, and heard my cry.

Lamentations 3:25LORD is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.

Habakkuk 2:3For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hastens toward the end, and shall not lay. Though it tarry, wait for it, because it will surely come. It will not delay.

Romans 13:11And this, knowing the time, that the hour is now for us to awake out of sleep. For our salvation is now nearer than when we believed.

Philippians 4:5Let your meekness be known to all men. The Lord is near.

Matthew Henry on James 5:2-12

Warnings to the Rich; Motives to Patience under Affliction. ( a. d. 61.) 1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. 2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. 3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days. 4 Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and… Read the whole commentary →

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