James 5:8

You also must be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord has drawn near.

Text-Critical English NT

In The King James Version

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

In Context

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

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

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Cross References

Romans 13:11And do this, knowing that the hour has now come for us to be awakened from sleep. For our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.

Philippians 4:5Let your gentleness be known to everyone. 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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