James 5:9
Do not make complaints against each other, brothers, lest you yourselves be condemned. Behold the Judge is standing before the very door!
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
8So you also must be patient. Stablish your hearts; for the coming of the Lord is at hand!
Cross References
Matthew 7:1"Judge not, that you may be judged, yourselves;
Mark 6:19So Herodias hated him, and wished to put him to death;
1 Corinthians 4:5So make no hasty judgment until the Lord come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make plain the purpose of men’s hearts. Then each man’s due praise will come to him from God.
2 Corinthians 9:7But let each give according to the purpose of his heart; not grudgingly of under compulsion. It is a cheerful giver that God loves.
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 →