James 5:8
*Ye* also have patience: stablish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is drawn nigh.
Darby Translation
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 27:14Wait for Jehovah; be strong and let thy heart take courage: yea, wait for Jehovah.
Psalms 40:1{To the chief Musician. Of David. A Psalm.} I waited patiently for Jehovah; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.
Lamentations 3:25Jehovah is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul [that] seeketh him.
Habakkuk 2:3For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but it hasteth to the end, and shall not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; for it will surely come, it will not delay.
Romans 13:11This also, knowing the time, that it is already time that *we* should be aroused out of sleep; for now [is] our salvation nearer than when we believed.
Philippians 4:5Let your gentleness be known of 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 →