James 5:7

Believers are to be patient until the Lord's coming, like a farmer awaiting the harvest. Endurance now looks forward to certain future reward.

Cross-references · 25

• Heb 12:1–3Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us,
• Jas 5:8–9You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.
• Joel 2:23“Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in Yahweh, your God; for he gives you the former rain in just measure, and he causes the rain to come down for you, the former rain and the latter rain, as before.
• Gal 6:9Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.
• Deut 11:14that I will give the rain of your land in its season, the former rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, your new wine, and your oil.
• Col 1:11strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy;
• 2 Cor 6:4–5but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,
• Rom 2:7to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;
• Heb 6:15Thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
• Jer 5:24Neither do they say in their heart, ‘Let us now fear Yahweh our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season; who preserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest.’
• Gal 5:5For we, through the Spirit, by faith wait for the hope of righteousness.
• Rom 8:24–25For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees?
• Hos 6:3Let us acknowledge Yahweh. Let us press on to know Yahweh. As surely as the sun rises, Yahweh will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth.”
• Matt 24:44Therefore also be ready, for in an hour that you don’t expect, the Son of Man will come.
• 1 Th 2:19For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn’t it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?
• 1 Th 3:13to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.
• Rom 15:4For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through perseverance and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
• Luke 18:8I tell you that he will avenge them quickly. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?”
• Matt 24:27For as the lightning flashes from the east, and is seen even to the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
• Luke 8:15That in the good ground, these are such as in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and produces fruit with patience.
• Luke 21:27Then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
• Zech 10:1Ask of Yahweh rain in the spring time, Yahweh who makes storm clouds, and he gives rain showers to everyone for the plants in the field.
• 2 Pet 3:4and saying, “Where is the promise of his coming? For, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.”
• 1 Th 1:3remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.
• 1 Cor 1:7so that you come behind in no gift; waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ;

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