James 5:7
Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receive the early and latter rain.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
In Context
6Ye have condemned, ye have killed the righteous one; he doth not resist you.
8Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord is at hand.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 11:14that I will give the rain of your land in its season, the former rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil.
Hosea 6:3And let us know, let us follow on to know the LORD; his going forth is sure as the morning: and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter rain that watereth the earth.
Zechariah 10:1Ask ye of the LORD rain in the time of the latter rain, even of the LORD that maketh lightnings; and he shall give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field.
Matthew 24:44Therefore be ye also ready: for in an hour that ye think not the Son of man cometh.
Luke 18:8I say unto you, that he will avenge them speedily. Howbeit when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?
Romans 2:7to them that by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honour and incorruption, eternal life:
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 →