James 5:7

Be patient therefore, brethren, until the Coming of the Lord. Notice how eagerly a farmer waits for a valuable crop! He is patient over it till it has received the early and the later rain.

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.

In Context

6You have condemned--you have murdered-- the righteous man: he offers no resistance.

8So you also must be patient: keeping up your courage; for the Coming of the Lord is now close at hand.

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Cross References

Matthew 24:44Therefore you also must be ready; for it is at a time when you do not expect Him that the Son of Man will come.

Luke 18:8Yes, He will soon avenge their wrongs. Yet, when the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on earth?"

Romans 2:7to those on the one hand who, by lives of persistent right-doing, are striving for glory, honour and immortality, the Life of the Ages;

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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