James 5:9
Indulge not in complaints against one another, brethren, lest you be condemned: behold, the judge stands before the door.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
8Be you also patient, establish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draws near.
Cross References
Matthew 7:1Judge not, that you may not be judged:
Mark 6:19And Herodias was angry with him, and desired to have him killed, and was not able;
1 Corinthians 4:5So, then, judge nothing before the time, till the Lord comes, who will bring to light the secret works of darkness, and will also make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall each have his praise from God.
2 Corinthians 9:7Let each one give, as he purposes in his heart; not with grief, nor 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 →