James 5:8

You, too, be patient and strengthen your hearts, because the Lord’s coming is near.

Majority Standard Bible

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 Lord’s coming. See how the farmer awaits the precious fruit of the soil—how patient he is for the fall and spring rains.

9Do not complain about one another, brothers, so that you will not be judged. Look, the Judge is standing at the door!

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Cross References

Psalms 27:14Wait patiently for the LORD; be strong and courageous. Wait patiently for the LORD!

Psalms 40:1For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. I waited patiently for the LORD; He inclined to me and heard my cry.

Lamentations 3:25The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him.

Habakkuk 2:3For the vision awaits an appointed time; it testifies of the end and does not lie. Though it lingers, wait for it, since it will surely come and will not delay.

Romans 13:11And do this, understanding the occasion. The hour has come for us to wake up from our slumber, for our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.

Philippians 4:5Let your gentleness be apparent 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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