James 5:10

Brethren, take ye (an) ensample of evil going out, and of long abiding, and travail, [or and of (the) long abiding of travail], and of patience, the prophets, that spake to you in the name of the Lord, (or the prophets, who spoke to you in the name of the Lord).

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

In The King James Version

Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.

In Context

9Brethren, do not ye be sorrowful [or do not ye be scornful] each to (the) other, that ye be not deemed (or so that ye be not judged). Lo! the judge standeth nigh before the gate.

11Lo! we bless them that suffered. Ye have heard (of) the patience of Job, and ye saw the end of the Lord (or and ye saw his end with the Lord), for the Lord is merciful, and doing mercy.

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Cross References

Isaiah 39:8And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, The word of the Lord is good, which he spake. And Hezekiah said, Peace and truth be made only in my days. (And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, The word of the Lord is good, which he spoke. And Hezekiah said, Let there be only peace and truth in my days.)

Jeremiah 23:22If they had stood in my counsel, and had made known my words to my people, forsooth I had turned them away from their evil way, and from their worst thoughts. (But if they had stood in my council, and had told out my words to my people, then they would have turned them away from their evil ways, and from their worst thoughts.)

Matthew 5:11Blessed be ye, when men shall curse you, and shall pursue you (or shall persecute you), and shall say all evil against you lying, for me.

Matthew 23:34Therefore lo! I send to you prophets, and wise men, and scribes [or writers]; and of them ye shall slay and crucify, and of them ye shall scourge in your synagogues, and shall pursue from city into city, [or and shall pursue from city to city], (or and shall persecute them from city to city);

Luke 13:34Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that slayest (the) prophets, and stonest them that be sent to thee, how oft would I gather together thy sons, as a bird gathereth his nest under (his) feathers [or under (his) wings], and thou wouldest not (let me).

Acts 7:52Whom of the prophets have not your fathers pursued (or Whom of the prophets have your fathers not persecuted), and have slain them that before-told of the coming of the rightful man [or of the just man], whose traitors and manslayers ye were now?

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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