James 5:8
Be ye also patient therefore and settle your hearts: for ye comming of the Lord draweth neere.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
In Context
Cross References
Psalms 27:14Hope in the Lord: be strong, and he shall comfort thine heart, and trust in the Lord.
Psalms 40:1To him that excelleth. A Psalme of David. I Waited paciently for the Lord, and he inclined vnto me, and heard my cry.
Lamentations 3:25The Lord is good vnto them, that trust in him, and to the soule that seeketh him.
Habakkuk 2:3For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the last it shall speake, and not lie: though it tarie, waite: for it shall surely come, and shall not stay.
Romans 13:11And that, considering the season, that it is now time that we should arise from sleepe: for now is our saluation neerer, then when we beleeued it.
Philippians 4:5Let your patient minde be knowen vnto 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 →