James 5:8

You also be patient. Keep your hearts firm, because the coming of the Lord has approached.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

7Therefore, brothers, be patient until the coming of the Lord. Consider, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it until it receives the early and late rain.

9Do not groan against one another, brothers, lest you be judged. Look, the Judge is standing at your doors!

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Cross References

Romans 13:11Besides this, knowing the time, it is high time for us to be awakened from sleep, because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.

Philippians 4:5Let your forbearing spirit be evident to all; 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 →

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