James 5:9
Do not grumble, brothers, against each other, so that ye not be judged. Behold, the judge stands before the doors.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
8Be ye also patient. Establish your hearts, because the coming of the Lord has approached.
Cross References
Genesis 4:7If thou do well, shall thou not be accepted? And if thou do not well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire shall be for thee, and thou shall rule over it.
Psalms 59:15They shall wander up and down for food, and tarry all night if they be not satisfied.
Matthew 7:1Do not criticize, that ye may not be criticized.
Mark 6:19And Herodias was resentful toward him, and wanted to kill him. And she could not,
1 Corinthians 4:5Therefore do not judge anything before time, until the Lord comes who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and make public the deliberations of the hearts. And then praise will come to each man from God.
2 Corinthians 9:7Each man as he purposes in his heart, not from regret or from necessity, for God loves a cheerful giver.
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 →