Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
Parallel translations
- WEB You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.
- BSB You, too, be patient and strengthen your hearts, because the Lord’s coming is near.
- NKJV You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.
- NASB You too be patient; strengthen your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is near.
- NLT You, too, must be patient. Take courage, for the coming of the Lord is near.
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Quick answer
Be patient and establish your hearts, for the Lord's coming is near. Nearness of Christ's return strengthens steadfast endurance.
Overview
James repeats the call to patience and adds an exhortation to strengthen the heart in resolve, because the Lord's coming is at hand. The expectation of Christ's imminent return is meant to anchor and stabilize believers under trial. This forward-looking hope sustains perseverance, as the certain promise of the returning Lord steadies the faithful.
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Cross-references · 19
- Jas 5:9Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.
- Gal 5:22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
- Ps 37:7Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.
- 1 Pet 4:7But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
- Ps 27:14Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.
- Phil 4:5Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.
- 1 Th 3:13To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.
- Rev 22:20He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
- Mic 7:7Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.
- Lam 3:25–26The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.
- Rom 8:25But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
- Heb 10:25–37Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
- Ps 130:5I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope.
- 2 Th 3:5And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.
- Rom 13:11–12And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
- Hab 2:3For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.
- 1 Th 1:10And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.
- Ps 40:1–3I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.
- Gen 49:18I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.
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