James 5:7
Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth: patiently bearing till he receive the early and latter rain.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
6You have condemned and put to death the Just One, and he resisted you not.
8Be you therefore also patient, and strengthen your hearts: for the coming of the Lord is at hand.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 11:14He will give to your land the early rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your corn, and your wine, and your oil,
Hosea 6:3He will revive us after two days: on the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. We shall know, and we shall follow on, that we may know the Lord. His going forth is prepared as the morning light, and he will come to us as the early and the latter rain to the earth.
Zechariah 10:1Ask ye of the Lord rain in the latter season, and the Lord will make snows, and will give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field.
Matthew 24:44Wherefore be you also ready, because at what hour you know not the Son of man will come.
Luke 18:8I say to you, that he will quickly revenge them. But yet the Son of man, when he cometh, shall he find, think you, faith on earth?
Romans 2:7To them indeed, who according to patience in good work, seek glory and honour and incorruption, eternal life:
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 →