James 5:8

Therefore, you too should be patient and should strengthen your hearts. For the advent of the Lord draws near.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

7Therefore, be patient, brothers, until the advent of the Lord. Consider that the farmer anticipates the precious fruit of the earth, waiting patiently, until he receives the early and the late rains.

9Brothers, do not complain against one another, so that you may not be judged. Behold, the judge stands before the door.

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Cross References

Psalms 40:1Unto the end. A Psalm of David himself.

Lamentations 3:25TETH. The Lord is good to those who hope in him, to the soul that seeks him.

Habakkuk 2:3For as yet the vision is far off, and it will appear in the end, and it will not lie. If it expresses any delay, wait for it. For it is arriving and it will arrive, and it will not be hindered.

Romans 13:11And we know the present time, that now is the hour for us to rise up from sleep. For already our salvation is closer than when we first believed.

Philippians 4:5Let your modesty 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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