James 5:9
Be not querulous one against another, my brethren, lest ye be judged: for lo, the judgment, standeth before the door.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
In Context
8So also be ye patient, and fortify your hearts; for the advent of our Lord draweth nigh
Cross References
Matthew 7:1Judge not, that ye be not judged.
Mark 6:19And Herodias herself was an enemy to him, and wished to kill him, but was not able.
1 Corinthians 4:5Therefore pronounce not judgments before the time, or until the Lord come, who will pour light upon the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the thoughts of men's hearts: and then will each one have due praise from God.
2 Corinthians 9:7Every man, according to his own views, not with sadness, not by constraint: for the Lord loveth a joyous giver.
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 →