James 5:8

You also be patient; establish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draws near.

Revised King James New Testament

In The King James Version

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

In Context

7Therefore be patient, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, and is patient for it, until it receives the early and the late rains.

9Do not grumble against one another, brethren, lest you be condemned: behold, the judge stands before the door.

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Cross References

Romans 13:11And besides that, you know the hour, that it is now high time to awaken from sleep: for now our salvation is nearer than when we believed.

Philippians 4:5Let your forbearing spirit be known to 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 →

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