James 5:7

American Standard Version (1901)

Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receive the early and latter rain.

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  • Deut 11:14 : 14 that I will give the rain of your land in its season, the former rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy grain, and thy new wine, and thine oil.
  • Jer 5:24 : 24 Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear Jehovah our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in its season; that preserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.
  • Joel 2:23 : 23 Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in Jehovah your God; for he giveth you the former rain in just measure, and he causeth to come down for you the rain, the former rain and the latter rain, in the first [month] .
  • Gal 6:9 : 9 And let us not be weary in well-doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
  • Col 1:11 : 11 strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, unto all patience and longsuffering with joy;
  • 1 Thess 2:19 : 19 For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of glorying? Are not even ye, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?
  • 1 Thess 3:13 : 13 to the end he may establish your hearts unblameable in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.
  • Heb 6:15 : 15 And thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
  • Heb 12:1-3 : 1 Therefore let us also, seeing we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, 2 looking unto Jesus the author and perfecter of [our] faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising shame, and hath sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3 For consider him that hath endured such gainsaying of sinners against himself, that ye wax not weary, fainting in your souls.
  • Jas 5:8-9 : 8 Be ye also patient; establish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord is at hand. 9 Murmur not, brethren, one against another, that ye be not judged: behold, the judge standeth before the doors.
  • 2 Pet 3:4 : 4 and 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 Thess 1:3 : 3 remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;
  • Hos 6:3 : 3 And let us know, let us follow on to know Jehovah: his going forth is sure as the morning; and he will come unto us as the rain, as the latter rain that watereth the earth.
  • Zech 10:1 : 1 Ask ye of Jehovah rain in the time of the latter rain, [even of] Jehovah that maketh lightnings; and he will give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field.
  • Matt 24:27 : 27 For as the lightning cometh forth from the east, and is seen even unto the west; so shall be the coming of the Son of man.
  • Matt 24:44 : 44 Therefore be ye also ready; for in an hour that ye think not the Son of man cometh.
  • Luke 8:15 : 15 And that in the good ground, these are such as in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it fast, and bring forth fruit with patience.
  • Luke 18:8 : 8 I say unto you, that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?
  • Luke 21:27 : 27 And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
  • Rom 2:7 : 7 to them that by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and incorruption, eternal life:
  • Rom 8:24-25 : 24 For in hope were we saved: but hope that is seen is not hope: for who hopeth for that which he seeth? 25 But if we hope for that which we see not, [then] do we with patience wait for it.
  • Rom 15:4 : 4 For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that through patience and through comfort of the scriptures we might have hope.
  • 1 Cor 1:7 : 7 so that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ;
  • 2 Cor 6:4-5 : 4 but in everything commending ourselves, as ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, 5 in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;
  • Gal 5:5 : 5 For we through the Spirit by faith wait for the hope of righteousness.

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    8Be ye also patient; establish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

    9Murmur not, brethren, one against another, that ye be not judged: behold, the judge standeth before the doors.

    10Take, brethren, for an example of suffering and of patience, the prophets who spake in the name of the Lord.

    11Behold, we call them blessed that endured: ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord, how that the Lord is full of pity, and merciful.

  • Heb 10:36-37
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    36For ye have need of patience, that, having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise.

    37For yet a very little while, He that cometh shall come, and shall not tarry.

  • Heb 6:7
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    7For the land which hath drunk the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them for whose sake it is also tilled, receiveth blessing from God:

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    6The husbandmen that laboreth must be the first to partake of the fruits.

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    3Knowing that the proving of your faith worketh patience.

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  • Mark 4:28-29
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    28The earth beareth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.

    29But when the fruit is ripe, straightway he putteth forth the sickle, because the harvest is come.

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    4Behold, the hire of the laborers who mowed your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth out: and the cries of them that reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.

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    9And let us not be weary in well-doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

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    12Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness; break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek Jehovah, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.

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    6Ye have condemned, ye have killed the righteous [one] ; he doth not resist you.

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    8But forget not this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

    9The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some count slackness; but is longsuffering to you-ward, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

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    5And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patience of Christ.

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    7Rest in Jehovah, 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.

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    15And that in the good ground, these are such as in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it fast, and bring forth fruit with patience.

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    18And therefore will Jehovah wait, that he may be gracious unto you; and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for Jehovah is a God of justice; blessed are all they that wait for him.

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    3For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hasteth toward the end, and shall not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not delay.

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    19In your patience ye shall win your souls.

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    19Ye know [this], my beloved brethren. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

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    25Jehovah is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.

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    36and be ye yourselves like unto men looking for their lord, when he shall return from the marriage feast; that, when he cometh and knocketh, they may straightway open unto him.

  • Deut 11:14
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    14that I will give the rain of your land in its season, the former rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy grain, and thy new wine, and thine oil.

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    9For evil-doers shall be cut off; But those that wait for Jehovah, they shall inherit the land.

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    2And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant, that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruits of the vineyard.

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    7For let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord;

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