You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.
Parallel translations
- WEB You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.
- KJV Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
- BSB You, too, be patient and strengthen your hearts, because the Lord’s coming is near.
- 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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- Jas 5:9Don’t grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won’t be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.
- Gal 5:22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,
- Ps 37:7Rest in Yahweh, and wait patiently for him. Don’t fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.
- 1 Pet 4:7But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.
- Ps 27:14Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Yahweh.
- Phil 4:5Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.
- 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.
- Rev 22:20He who testifies these things says, “Yes, I come quickly.” Amen! Yes, come, Lord Jesus.
- Mic 7:7But as for me, I will look to Yahweh. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.
- Lam 3:25–26Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.
- Rom 8:25But if we hope for that which we don’t see, we wait for it with patience.
- Heb 10:25–37not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as you see the Day approaching.
- Ps 130:5I wait for Yahweh. My soul waits. I hope in his word.
- 2 Th 3:5May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love, and into the perseverance of Christ.
- Rom 13:11–12Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.
- Hab 2:3For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won’t delay.
- 1 Th 1:10and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead — Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.
- Ps 40:1–3For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. I waited patiently for Yahweh. He turned to me, and heard my cry.
- Gen 49:18I have waited for your salvation, Yahweh.
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