James 5:8

you also suffer long; establish your hearts; because the coming of the Lord is nigh.

1902 William Baxter Godbey NT

In The King James Version

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

In Context

7Therefore, O brethren, suffer long, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer receives the precious fruit of the earth, waiting for it, until he may receive the former and latter rain:

9Do not complain against one another, brethren, in order that you may not be judged: behold, the judge stands before the doors.

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Cross References

Romans 13:11And recognizing this time, that it is already the hour we should wake out of sleep: for now our salvation is nearer than when we believed.

Philippians 4:5Let your clemency be made known to all men; the Lord is nigh.

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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