James 5:9
Complain not one against another, brethren, that ye be not judged. Behold, the judge stands before the door.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
8*Ye* also have patience: stablish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is drawn nigh.
Cross References
Genesis 4:7If thou doest well, will not [thy countenance] look up [with confidence]? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door; and unto thee [shall be] his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.
Psalms 59:15They shall wander about for meat, and stay all night if they be not satisfied.
Matthew 7:1Judge not, that ye may not be judged;
Mark 6:19But Herodias kept it [in her mind] against him, and wished to kill him, and could not:
1 Corinthians 4:5So that do not judge anything before [the] time, until the Lord shall come, who shall also both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and shall make manifest the counsels of hearts; and then shall each have [his] praise from God.
2 Corinthians 9:7each according as he is purposed in his heart; not grievingly, or of 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 →