James 5:8

Be you therefore also patient, and strengthen your hearts: for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

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

In Context

7Be 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.

9Grudge not, brethren, one against another, that you may not be judged. Behold the judge standeth before the door.

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Cross References

Psalms 27:14Expect the Lord, do manfully, and let thy heart take courage, and wait thou for the Lord.

Psalms 40:1Unto the end, a psalm for David himself.

Lamentations 3:25Teth. The Lord is good to them that hope in him, to the soul that seeketh him.

Habakkuk 2:3For as yet the vision is far off, and it shall appear at the end, and shall not lie: if it make any delay, wait for it: for it shall surely come, and it shall not be slack.

Romans 13:11And that knowing the season; that it is now the hour for us to rise from sleep. For now our salvation is nearer than when we believed.

Philippians 4:5Let your modesty be known to all men. The Lord is nigh.

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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