James 5:7
Be patient, therefore, brethren, till the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer looks for the precious fruit of the earth, and waits patiently for it, till he receives the early and the latter rain.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
6You have condemned and killed the Just One: and he does not set himself against you.
8Be you also patient, establish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draws near.
Cross References
Matthew 24:44For this reason, be you also ready; for at an hour in which you think not, the Son of man comes.
Luke 18:8I say to you, that he will avenge them speedily. Yet, when the Son of man comes, will he find the faith on the earth?
Romans 2:7to those who, by patient continuance in good works, seek for glory and honor and incorruptibility, eternal life:
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 →