James 5:8

you also be patient; establish your hearts, because the coming of the LORD has drawn near;

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

7Be patient, then, brothers, until the coming of the LORD; behold, the farmer expects the precious fruit of the earth, being patient for it, until he may receive rain—early and latter;

9do not murmur against one another, brothers, that you may not be condemned; behold, the Judge has stood before the door.

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Cross References

Psalms 27:14Look to YHWH—be strong, || And He strengthens your heart, || Indeed, look to YHWH!

Psalms 40:1TO THE OVERSEER. A PSALM OF DAVID. I have diligently expected YHWH, || And He inclines to me, and hears my cry,

Lamentations 3:25YHWH [is] good to those waiting for Him, || To the soul [that] seeks Him.

Habakkuk 2:3For yet the vision [is] for a season, || And it breathes for the end, and does not lie, || If it lingers, wait for it, || For surely it comes, it is not late.

Romans 13:11And this, knowing the time, that for us, the hour already [is] to be aroused out of sleep, for now our salvation [is] nearer than when we believed;

Philippians 4:5Let your reasonableness be known to 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 →

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