James 5:8
Good News Translation
You also must be patient. Keep your hopes high, for the day of the Lord's coming is near.

New Revised Standard Version
You also must be patient. Strengthen your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is near.

Contemporary English Version
Be patient like those farmers and don't give up. The Lord will soon be here!

New American Bible
You too must be patient. Make your hearts firm, because the coming of the Lord is at hand.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Be you therefore also patient and strengthen your hearts: for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Be you therefore also patient and strengthen your hearts: for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

ye also.

Genesis 49:18 I will look for thy salvation, O Lord.

Psalm 37:7 Be subject to the Lord and pray to him. Envy not the man who prospereth in his way; the man who doth unjust things.

Psalm 40:1-3 Unto the end, a psalm for David himself. [2] With expectation I have waited for the Lord, and he was attentive to me. . . .

Psalm 130:5 my soul hath hoped in the Lord.

Lamentations 3:25,26 Teth. The Lord is good to them that hope in him, to the soul that seeketh him. . . .

Micah 7:7 But I will look towards the Lord, I will wait for God, my saviour: my God will hear me.

Habakkuk 2:3 For as yet the vision is far off, and it shall appear at the end, and shall not lie: if it make any delay, wait for it: for it shall surely come, and it shall not be slack.

Romans 8:25 But if we hope for that which we see not, we wait for it with patience.

Galatians 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is, charity, joy, peace, patience, benignity, goodness, longanimity,

1 Thessalonians 1:10 And to wait for his Son from heaven (whom he raised up from the dead), Jesus, who hath delivered us from the wrath to come.

2 Thessalonians 3:5 And the Lord direct your hearts, in the charity of God and the patience of Christ.

Hebrews 10:35-37 Do not therefore lose your confidence which hath a great reward. . . .

stablish.

Psalm 27:14 Expect the Lord, do manfully, and let thy heart take courage, and wait thou for the Lord.

for.

James 5:9 Grudge not, brethren, one against another, that you may not be judged. Behold the judge standeth before the door.

Philippians 4:5 Let your modesty be known to all men. The Lord is nigh.

Hebrews 10:25-37 Not forsaking our assembly, as some are accustomed: but comforting one anther, and so much the more as you see the day approaching. . . .

1 Peter 4:7 But the end of all is at hand. Be prudent therefore and watch in prayers.

Revelation 22:20 He that giveth testimony of these things, saith: Surely, I come quickly: Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.

Context
Patience in Suffering
7Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth: patiently bearing till he receive the early and latter rain. 8Be you therefore also patient and strengthen your hearts: for the coming of the Lord is at hand. 9Grudge not, brethren, one against another, that you may not be judged. Behold the judge standeth before the door.…
Cross References
Ezekiel 7:12
The time is come, the day is at hand: let not the buyer rejoice: nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all the people thereof.

Luke 21:19
In your patience you shall possess your souls.

John 21:22
Jesus saith to him: So I will have him to remain till I come, what is it to thee? Follow thou me.

Romans 13:11
And that, knowing the season, that it is now the hour for us to rise from sleep. For now our salvation is nearer than when we believed.

Romans 13:12
The night is passed And the day is at hand. Let us, therefore cast off the works of darkness and put on the armour of light.

Philippians 4:5
Let your modesty be known to all men. The Lord is nigh.

1 Thessalonians 2:19
For what is our hope or joy or crown of glory? Are not you, in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?

1 Thessalonians 3:13
To confirm your hearts without blame, in holiness, before God and our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, with all his saints. Amen.

James 5:3
Your gold and silver is cankered: and the rust of them shall be for a testimony against you and shall eat your flesh like fire. You have stored up to yourselves wrath against the last days.

1 Peter 4:7
But the end of all is at hand. Be prudent therefore and watch in prayers.

James 5:7
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