James 5:8

You, too, be patient. Make your hearts strong, because the Lord's coming is near.

Unlocked Literal Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

7So be patient, brothers, until the Lord's coming. See, the farmer awaits the valuable harvest from the ground. He is patiently waiting for it, until it receives the early and late rains.

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

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Cross References

Psalms 27:14Wait for Yahweh; 1 be strong, and let your heart be courageous! 1 Wait for Yahweh!

Psalms 40:1I waited patiently for Yahweh; 1 he listened to me and heard my cry. 1

Lamentations 3:25Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the one who seeks him. 1

Habakkuk 2:3For the vision is yet for a future time and will finally speak and not fail. 1 Though it delays, wait for it. For it will surely come and will not tarry. 1

Romans 13:11Because of this, you know the time, that it is already time for you to awake out of sleep. For now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed.

Philippians 4:5Let your gentleness be known to all people. 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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