James 5:10

As an example of suffering and patience, my brothers, take the prophets, who spoke in the name of the Lord.

Text-Critical English NT

In The King James Version

Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.

In Context

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

11Behold, we regard as blessed those who endure. You have heard of the endurance of Job, and you have seen the purpose of the Lord, that he is full of compassion and mercy.

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Cross References

Matthew 5:11Blessed are you when others reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account.

Matthew 23:34Therefore, behold, I am sending you prophets, sages, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from town to town.

Luke 13:34O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to yoʋ! How often I have wanted to gather yoʋr children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you were not willing!

Acts 7:52Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become,

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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