James 5:7
Have patience, therefore, brethren, till the coming of the Lord. Behold, the labourer awaits the precious fruit of the earth, having patience for it until it receive [the] early and [the] latter rain.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
6ye have condemned, ye have killed the just; he does not resist you.
8*Ye* also have patience: stablish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is drawn nigh.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 11:14that I will give rain to your land in its season, the early rain and the latter rain; and thou shalt gather in thy corn, and thy new wine, and thine oil;
Hosea 6:3and we shall know, we shall follow on to know Jehovah: his going forth is assured as the morning dawn; and he will come unto us as the rain, as the latter rain which watereth the earth.
Zechariah 10:1Ask of Jehovah rain in the time of the latter rain; Jehovah will make lightnings, and he will give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field.
Matthew 24:44Wherefore *ye* also, be ye ready, for in that hour that ye think not the Son of man comes.
Luke 18:8I say unto you that he will avenge them speedily. But when the Son of man comes, shall he indeed find faith on the earth?
Romans 2:7to them who, in patient continuance of good works, seek for glory and honour and incorruptibility, life eternal.
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 →