James 5:8

King James Version

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

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
You must be patient too. Never stop hoping. The Lord is coming soon.

Revised Standard Version
You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Be ye also pacient therfore and settle youre hertes for ye commynge of the lorde draweth nye.

Hebrew Names Version
You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

New American Standard Bible
You too be patient; strengthen your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is near.

New Century Version
You, too, must be patient. Do not give up hope, because the Lord is coming soon.

Update Bible Version
Be also patient; establish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

Webster's Bible Translation
Be ye also patient; establish your hearts; for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.

English Standard Version
You also, be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

World English Bible
You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Be ye also patient, stablish your hearts; for the coming of the Lord is nigh.

Weymouth's New Testament
So you also must be patient: keeping up your courage; for the Coming of the Lord is now close at hand.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And be ye pacient, and conferme ye youre hertis, for the comyng of the Lord schal neiye.

English Revised Version
Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

Berean Standard Bible
You too, be patient and strengthen your hearts, because the Lord's coming is near.

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

Amplified Bible
You too, be patient; strengthen your hearts [keep them energized and firmly committed to God], because the coming of the Lord is near.

American Standard Version
Be ye also patient; establish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

Bible in Basic English
Be as calm in your waiting; let your hearts be strong: because the coming of the Lord is near.

Complete Jewish Bible
You too, be patient; keep up your courage; for the Lord's return is near.

Darby Translation
*Ye* also have patience: stablish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is drawn nigh.

International Standard Version
You, too, must be patient. Strengthen your hearts, because the coming of the Lord is near.Philippians 4:5; Hebrews 10:25,37; 1 Peter 4:7;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
so also you, prolong your spirit, and your hearts confirm; for the coming of our Lord draweth nigh.

Murdock Translation
So also be ye patient, and fortify your hearts; for the advent of our Lord draweth nigh

King James Version (1611)
Be yee also patient; stablish your hearts: for the comming of the Lorde draweth nigh.

New Living Translation
You, too, must be patient. Take courage, for the coming of the Lord is near.

New Life Bible
You must be willing to wait also. Be strong in your hearts because the Lord is coming again soon.

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

Geneva Bible (1587)
Be ye also patient therefore and settle your hearts: for ye comming of the Lord draweth nere.

George Lamsa Translation
You be patient also: strengthen your hearts: for the coming of our LORD is at hand.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Be, ye also, patient, Stablish your hearts, because, the Presence of the Lord, hath drawn near.

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

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Be ye also patient therfore, and settle your heartes, for the commyng of the Lorde draweth nye.

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

Christian Standard Bible®
You also must be patient. Strengthen your hearts, because the Lord’s coming is near.

Lexham English Bible
You also be patient. Strengthen your hearts, because the coming of the Lord is near.

Literal Translation
You also be long-suffering. Set your hearts firmly, because the coming of the Lord has drawn near.

Young's Literal Translation
be patient, ye also; establish your hearts, because the presence of the Lord hath drawn nigh;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Be ye also pacient therfore, and settle youre hertes, for the commynge of the LORDE draweth nye.

Mace New Testament (1729)
be you equally patient, and exercise your fortitude, for the advent of the Lord is nigh.

New English Translation
You also be patient and strengthen your hearts, for the Lord's return is near.

New King James Version
You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

Simplified Cowboy Version
Park your horse under a strong cedar and have courage as you wait on the Lord to come ridin' back . . . and he ain't far off now.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
You too be patient; strengthen your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is near.

Contextual Overview

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 the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth. ⁵ Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter. ⁶ Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you. ⁷ 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. ⁸ Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh. ⁹ Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door. ¹⁰ Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.

Bible Verse Review
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ye also: Genesis 49:18, Psalms 37:7, Psalms 40:1-3, Psalms 130:5, Lamentations 3:25, Lamentations 3:26, Micah 7:7, Habakkuk 2:3, Romans 8:25, Galatians 5:22, 1 Thessalonians 1:10, 2 Thessalonians 3:5, Hebrews 10:35-37

stablish: Psalms 27:14

for: James 5:9, Philippians 4:5, Hebrews 10:25-37, 1 Peter 4:7, Revelation 22:20

Reciprocal: Genesis 8:12 - And he Job 14:14 - all the days Ecclesiastes 7:8 - the patient Isaiah 28:16 - he that Ezekiel 7:12 - time Ezekiel 12:23 - The days Ezekiel 36:8 - at hand Joel 2:1 - for the Joel 2:23 - he will Zephaniah 3:8 - wait Zechariah 14:5 - the Lord Malachi 3:5 - I will come Matthew 24:27 - the coming Luke 8:15 - bring Luke 12:36 - men Luke 17:24 - in Romans 2:7 - patient 1 Corinthians 1:7 - waiting Colossians 1:11 - unto 1 Thessalonians 1:3 - and patience 2 Thessalonians 1:4 - your patience James 5:7 - unto Revelation 1:3 - for Revelation 1:9 - in the Revelation 13:10 - Here

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Be ye also patient,.... As well as the husbandman, and like him; and wait for the rains and dews of divine grace to fall, and make fruitful, and for the ripe fruit of eternal life; and in the mean while cheerfully and patiently bear all injuries, and oppressions:

stablish your hearts; though the state of the saints is stable, they being fixed in the everlasting love of God, in the covenant of grace, in the hands of Christ, and on the rock of ages; yet their hearts are very unstable, and so are their frames, and the exercise of grace in them, and need establishing, which God's work; which is often done by the means of the word and ordinances; and these the saints should make use of, for the establishing of their hearts: the sense may be, take heart, be of good cheer, do not be dismayed, or faint, or sink under your pressures, but be of good courage, pluck up your spirits, lift up your heads: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh; when he will render tribulation to them that trouble them, free them from all their sorrows and afflictions, and enter them into the joy of their Lord; which will be either at death, which was not very far off, or at the last day, which was drawing nearer and nearer, and which with God was near; with whom a thousand years are as one day.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Be ye also patient - As the farmer is. In due time, as he expects the return of the rain, so you may anticipate deliverance from your trials.

Stablish your hearts - Let your purposes and your faith be firm and unwavering. Do not become weary and fretful; but bear with constancy all that is laid upon you, until the time of your deliverance shall come.

For the coming of the Lord draweth nigh - Compare Revelation 22:10, Revelation 22:12, Revelation 22:20; the notes at 1 Corinthians 15:51. It is clear, I think, from this place, that the apostle expected that that which he understood by “the coming of the Lord” was soon to occur; for it was to be that by which they would obtain deliverance from the trials which they then endured. See James 5:7. Whether it means that he was soon to come to judgment, or to bring to an end the Jewish policy and to set up his kingdom on the earth, or that they would soon be removed by death, cannot be determined from the mere use of the language. The most natural interpretation of the passage, and one which will accord well with the time when the Epistle was written, is, that the predicted time of the destruction of Jerusalem Matthew 24:0 was at hand; that there were already indications that that would soon occur; and that there was a prevalent expectation among Christians that that event would be a release from many trials of persecution, and would be followed by the setting up of the Redeemer’s kingdom.

Perhaps many expected that the judgment would occur at that time, and that the Saviour would set up a personal reign on the earth. But the expectation of others might have been merely - what is indeed all that is necessarily implied in the predictions on the subject - that there would be after that a rapid and extensive spread of the principles of the Christian religion in the world. The destruction of Jerusalem and of the temple would contribute to that by bringing to an end the whole system of Jewish types and sacrifices; by convincing Christians that there was not to be one central rallying-point, thus destroying their lingering prejudices in favor of the Jewish mode of worship; and by scattering them abroad through the world to propagate the new religion. The Epistle was written, it is supposed, some ten or twelve years before the destruction of Jerusalem, (Introduction, Section 3,) and it is not improbable that there were already some indications of that approaching event.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 8. Be ye also patient — Wait for God's deliverance, as ye wait for his bounty in providence.

Stablish your hearts — Take courage; do not sink under your trials.

The coming of the Lord draweth nigh. — ηγγικε. Is at hand. He is already on his way to destroy this wicked people, to raze their city and temple, and to destroy their polity for ever; and this judgment will soon take place.