James 5:7

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Go on waiting calmly, my brothers, till the coming of the Lord, like the farmer waiting for the good fruit of the earth till the early and late rains have come.

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  • Deut 11:14 : 14 Then I will send rain on your land at the right time, the early rains and the late rains, so that you may get in your grain and your wine and your oil.
  • Jer 5:24 : 24 And they do not say in their hearts, Now let us give worship to our God, who gives the rain, the winter and the spring rain, at the right time; who keeps for us the ordered weeks of the grain-cutting.
  • Joel 2:23 : 23 Be glad, then, you children of Zion, and have joy in the Lord your God: for he gives you food in full measure, making the rain come down for you, the early and the late rain as at the first.
  • Gal 6:9 : 9 And let us not get tired of well-doing; for at the right time we will get in the grain, if we do not give way to weariness.
  • Col 1:11 : 11 Full of strength in the measure of the great power of his glory, so that you may undergo all troubles with joy;
  • 1 Thess 2:19 : 19 For what is our hope or joy or crown of glory? Are not even you, before our Lord Jesus, at his coming?
  • 1 Thess 3:13 : 13 So that your hearts may be strong and free from all sin before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.
  • Heb 6:15 : 15 And so, when he had been waiting calmly for a long time, God's word to him was put into effect.
  • Heb 12:1-3 : 1 For this reason, as we are circled by so great a cloud of witnesses, putting off every weight, and the sin into which we come so readily, let us keep on running in the way which is marked out for us, 2 Having our eyes fixed on Jesus, the guide and end of our faith, who went through the pains of the cross, not caring for the shame, because of the joy which was before him, and who has now taken his place at the right hand of God's seat of power. 3 Give thought to him who has undergone so much of the hate of sinners against himself, so that you may not be tired and feeble of purpose.
  • Jas 5:8-9 : 8 Be as calm in your waiting; let your hearts be strong: because the coming of the Lord is near. 9 Say no hard things against one another, brothers, so that you will not be judged; see, the judge is waiting at the doors.
  • 2 Pet 3:4 : 4 Saying, Where is the hope of his coming? From the death of the fathers till now everything has gone on as it was from the making of the world.
  • 1 Thess 1:3 : 3 Having ever in mind your work of faith and acts of love and the strength of your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;
  • Hos 6:3 : 3 And let us have knowledge, let us go after the knowledge of the Lord; his going out is certain as the dawn, his decisions go out like the light; he will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain watering the earth.
  • Zech 10:1 : 1 Make your request to the Lord for rain in the time of the spring rains, even to the Lord who makes the thunder-flames; and he will give them showers of rain, to every man grass in the field.
  • Matt 24:27 : 27 Because as in a thunderstorm the bright light coming from the east is seen even in the west; so will be the coming of the Son of man.
  • Matt 24:44 : 44 Be ready then; for at a time which you have no thought of the Son of man will come.
  • Luke 8:15 : 15 And those in the good earth are those who, having given ear to the word, keep it with a good and true heart, and in quiet strength give fruit.
  • Luke 18:8 : 8 I say to you that he will quickly do right in their cause. But when the Son of man comes, will there be any faith on earth?
  • Luke 21:27 : 27 And then they will see the Son of man coming in a cloud, with power and great glory.
  • Rom 2:7 : 7 To those who go on with good works in the hope of glory and honour and salvation from death, he will give eternal life:
  • Rom 8:24-25 : 24 For our salvation is by hope: but hope which is seen is not hope: for who is hoping for what he sees? 25 But if we have hope for that which we see not, then we will be able to go on waiting for it.
  • Rom 15:4 : 4 Now those things which were put down in writing before our time were for our learning, so that through quiet waiting and through the comfort of the holy Writings we might have hope.
  • 1 Cor 1:7 : 7 So that having every grace you are living in the hope of the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ;
  • 2 Cor 6:4-5 : 4 But in everything making it clear that we are the servants of God, in quiet strength, in troubles, in need, in sorrow, 5 In blows, in prisons, in attacks, in hard work, in watchings, in going without food;
  • Gal 5:5 : 5 For we through the Spirit by faith are waiting for the hope of righteousness.

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  • Jas 5:8-11
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    8 Be as calm in your waiting; let your hearts be strong: because the coming of the Lord is near.

    9 Say no hard things against one another, brothers, so that you will not be judged; see, the judge is waiting at the doors.

    10 Take as an example of pain nobly undergone and of strength in trouble, the prophets who gave to men the words of the Lord.

    11 We say that those men who have gone through pain are happy: you have the story of Job and the troubles through which he went and have seen that the Lord was full of pity and mercy in the end.

  • Heb 10:36-37
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    36 For, having done what was right in God's eyes, you have need of waiting before his word has effect for you.

    37 In a very little time he who is coming will come; he will not be slow.

  • Heb 6:7
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    7 For a land, drinking in the frequent rain and producing good plants for those for whom it is worked, has a blessing from God:

  • 2 Tim 2:6
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    6 It is right for the worker in the fields to be the first to take of the fruit.

  • Jas 1:3-4
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    3 Because you have the knowledge that the testing of your faith gives you the power of going on in hope;

    4 But let this power have its full effect, so that you may be made complete, needing nothing.

  • Mark 4:28-29
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    28 The earth gives fruit by herself; first the leaf, then the head, then the full grain.

    29 But when the grain is ready, he quickly sends men to get it cut, because the time for cutting has come.

  • Jas 5:4
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    4 See, the money which you falsely kept back from the workers cutting the grass in your field, is crying out against you; and the cries of those who took in your grain have come to the ears of the Lord of armies.

  • Gal 6:9
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    9 And let us not get tired of well-doing; for at the right time we will get in the grain, if we do not give way to weariness.

  • Hos 10:12
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    12 Put in the seed of righteousness, get in your grain in mercy, let your unploughed earth be turned up: for it is time to make search for the Lord, till he comes and sends righteousness on you like rain.

  • Jas 5:6
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    6 You have given your decision against the upright man and have put him to death. He puts up no fight against you.

  • Rom 8:25
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    25 But if we have hope for that which we see not, then we will be able to go on waiting for it.

  • 2 Pet 3:8-9
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    8 But, my loved ones, keep in mind this one thing, that with the Lord one day is the same as a thousand years, and a thousand years are no more than one day.

    9 The Lord is not slow in keeping his word, as he seems to some, but he is waiting in mercy for you, not desiring the destruction of any, but that all may be turned from their evil ways.

  • 2 Thess 3:5
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    5 And may your hearts be guided by the Lord into the love of God and quiet waiting for Christ.

  • Ps 37:7
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    7 Take your rest in the Lord, waiting quietly for him; do not be angry because of the man who does well in his evil ways, and gives effect to his bad designs.

  • Luke 8:15
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    15 And those in the good earth are those who, having given ear to the word, keep it with a good and true heart, and in quiet strength give fruit.

  • Isa 30:18
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    18 For this cause the Lord will be waiting, so that he may be kind to you; and he will be lifted up, so that he may have mercy on you; for the Lord is a God of righteousness: there is a blessing on all whose hope is in him.

  • Heb 6:12
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    12 So that you may not be slow in heart, but may take as your example those to whom God has given their heritage, because of their faith and their long waiting.

  • 1 Cor 1:7
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    7 So that having every grace you are living in the hope of the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ;

  • Hab 2:3
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    3 For the vision is still for the fixed time, and it is moving quickly to the end, and it will not be false: even if it is slow in coming, go on waiting for it; because it will certainly come, it will not be kept back.

  • Jas 5:18
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    18 And he made another prayer, and the heaven sent down rain and the earth gave her fruit.

  • 2 Pet 3:14
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    14 For this reason, my loved ones, as you are looking for these things, take great care that when he comes you may be in peace before him, free from sin and every evil thing.

  • Matt 21:34
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    34 And when the time for the fruit came near, he sent his servants to the workmen, to get the fruit.

  • Hag 1:10
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    10 For this cause the heaven over you is kept from giving dew, and the earth from giving her fruit.

  • Jer 5:24
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    24 And they do not say in their hearts, Now let us give worship to our God, who gives the rain, the winter and the spring rain, at the right time; who keeps for us the ordered weeks of the grain-cutting.

  • Rom 5:4
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    4 And waiting gives experience; and experience, hope:

  • Luke 21:19
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    19 By going through all these things, you will keep your lives.

  • Isa 18:5
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    5 For before the time of getting in the grapes, after the opening of the bud, when the flower has become a grape ready for crushing, he will take away the small branches with knives, cutting down and taking away the wide-stretching branches.

  • John 4:35-36
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    35 You would say, Four months from now is the time of the grain-cutting. Take a look, I say to you, at the fields; they are even now white for cutting.

    36 He who does the cutting now has his reward; he is getting together fruit for eternal life, so that he who did the planting and he who gets in the grain may have joy together.

  • Zech 10:1
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    1 Make your request to the Lord for rain in the time of the spring rains, even to the Lord who makes the thunder-flames; and he will give them showers of rain, to every man grass in the field.

  • Isa 5:7
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    7 For the vine-garden of the Lord of armies is the people of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of his delight: and he was looking for upright judging, and there was blood; for righteousness, and there was a cry for help.

  • Jas 1:12
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    12 There is a blessing on the man who undergoes testing; because, if he has God's approval, he will be given the crown of life, which the Lord has said he will give to those who have love for him.

  • Jas 1:19
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    19 You have knowledge of this, dear brothers. But let every man be quick in hearing, slow in words, slow to get angry;

  • Lam 3:25-26
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    25 The Lord is good to those who are waiting for him, to the soul which is looking for him.

    26 It is good to go on hoping and quietly waiting for the salvation of the Lord.

  • Ps 126:5-6
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    5 Those who put in seed with weeping will get in the grain with cries of joy.

    6 Though a man may go out weeping, taking his vessel of seed with him; he will come again in joy, with the corded stems of grain in his arms.

  • Luke 12:36
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    36 And be like men who are looking for their lord, when he comes back from the bride-feast; so that when he comes to the door, it will be open to him quickly.

  • Deut 11:14
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    14 Then I will send rain on your land at the right time, the early rains and the late rains, so that you may get in your grain and your wine and your oil.

  • Ps 37:9
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    9 For the evil-doers will be cut off: but those who have faith in the Lord will have the earth for their heritage.

  • Mark 12:2
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    2 And when the time came, he sent a servant to get from the workmen some of the fruit of the garden.

  • Jas 1:7
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    7 Let it not seem to such a man that he will get anything from the Lord;

  • 2 Thess 1:5
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    5 Which is a clear sign of the decision which God in his righteousness has made; to give you a part in his kingdom, for which you have undergone this pain;