James 5:8

You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

World English 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 therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.

9Don’t grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won’t be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.

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Cross References

Psalms 27:14Wait for the LORD. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for the LORD.

Psalms 40:1I waited patiently for the LORD. He turned 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 is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it, because it will surely come. It won’t delay.

Romans 13:11Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.

Philippians 4:5Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.

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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