James 5:7
But, my brethren, be ye patient until the advent of the Lord; like the husbandman, who waiteth for the precious fruits of his ground, and is patient as to them, until he receive the early and the latter rain.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
In Context
6Ye have condemned and slain the just, and none resisted you.
8So also be ye patient, and fortify your hearts; for the advent of our Lord draweth nigh
Cross References
Matthew 24:44Therefore, be ye also ready; for at an hour ye do not expect, the Son of man will come.
Luke 18:8I tell you, He will vindicate them speedily. Yet the Son of man will come; and will he find faith on the earth?
Romans 2:7to them who, by perseverance in good works, seek for glory and honor and immortality, to them he will give life eternal;
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 →