James 5:8
Be as calm in your waiting; let your hearts be strong: because the coming of the Lord is near.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
In Context
Cross References
Psalms 27:14Let your hope be in the Lord: take heart and be strong; yes, let your hope be in the Lord.
Psalms 40:1To the chief music-maker. Of David. A Psalm.
Lamentations 3:25The Lord is good to those who are waiting for him, to the soul which is looking for him.
Habakkuk 2:3For the vision is still for the fixed time, and it is moving quickly to the end, and it will not be false: even if it is slow in coming, go on waiting for it; because it will certainly come, it will not be kept back.
Romans 13:11See then that the time has come for you to be awake from sleep: for now is your salvation nearer than when you first had faith.
Philippians 4:5Let your gentle behaviour be clear 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 →