James 5:8

so also you, prolong your spirit, and your hearts confirm; for the coming of our Lord draweth nigh.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

In The King James Version

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

In Context

7BUT you, my brethren, prolong your spirit until the coming of the Lord; as the husbandman who expecteth the precious fruits of his lands, and prolongeth his spirit for them, until he receive the rain the early and the latter;

9Groan not one against another, my brethren, that you be not judged; for, behold, the Judge standeth before the door.

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Cross References

Romans 13:11AND also this know, that the time is, and the hour is, when we should be awake from our sleep; for now hath drawn nearer to us our salvation than when we believed.

Philippians 4:5And let your meekness be known unto every man: our 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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