James 5:7

World English Bible (2000)

Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late 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 you may gather in your grain, and your new wine, and your oil.
  • Jer 5:24 : 24 Neither 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.'
  • Joel 2:23 : 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 6:9 : 9 Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don't give up.
  • Col 1:11 : 11 strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy;
  • 1 Thess 2:19 : 19 For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn't it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?
  • 1 Thess 3:13 : 13 to 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.
  • Heb 6:15 : 15 Thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
  • Heb 12:1-3 : 1 Therefore 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 patience the race that is set before us, 2 looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3 For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don't grow weary, fainting in your souls.
  • Jas 5:8-9 : 8 You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand. 9 Don't grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won't be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.
  • 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 Let 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."
  • Zech 10:1 : 1 Ask 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.
  • Matt 24:27 : 27 For as the lightning flashes from the east, and is seen even to the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
  • Matt 24:44 : 44 Therefore also be ready, for in an hour that you don't expect, the Son of Man will come.
  • Luke 8:15 : 15 That in the good ground, these are such as in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and bring forth fruit with patience.
  • Luke 18:8 : 8 I tell you that he will avenge them quickly. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?"
  • Luke 21:27 : 27 Then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
  • Rom 2:7 : 7 to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;
  • Rom 8:24-25 : 24 For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees? 25 But if we hope for that which we don't see, we wait for it with patience.
  • Rom 15:4 : 4 For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through patience and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
  • 1 Cor 1:7 : 7 so that you 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 servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses, 5 in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, 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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  • Jas 5:8-11
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    8You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

    9Don't grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won't be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.

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

    11Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.

  • Heb 10:36-37
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    36For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

    37"In a very little while, he who comes will come, and will not wait.

  • Heb 6:7
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    7For the land which has drunk the rain that comes often on it, and brings forth a crop suitable for them for whose sake it is also tilled, receives blessing from God;

  • 2 Tim 2:6
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    6The farmers who labor must be the first to get a share of the crops.

  • Jas 1:3-4
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    3knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

    4Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

  • Mark 4:28-29
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    28For the earth bears fruit: first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.

    29But when the fruit is ripe, immediately he puts forth the sickle, because the harvest has come."

  • Jas 5:4
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    4Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.

  • Gal 6:9
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    9Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don't give up.

  • Hos 10:12
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    12Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek Yahweh, until he comes and rains righteousness on you.

  • Jas 5:6
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    6You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn't resist you.

  • Rom 8:25
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    25But if we hope for that which we don't see, we wait for it with patience.

  • 2 Pet 3:8-9
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    8But don't forget 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 slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

  • 2 Thess 3:5
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    5May the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patience of Christ.

  • Ps 37:7
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    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.

  • Luke 8:15
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    15That in the good ground, these are such as in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and bring forth fruit with patience.

  • Isa 30:18
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    18Therefore Yahweh will wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, for Yahweh is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.

  • Heb 6:12
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    12that you won't be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherited the promises.

  • 1 Cor 1:7
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    7so that you come behind in no gift; waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ;

  • Hab 2:3
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    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.

  • Jas 5:18
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    18He prayed again, and the sky gave rain, and the earth brought forth its fruit.

  • 2 Pet 3:14
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    14Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for these things, be diligent to be found in peace, without blemish and blameless in his sight.

  • Matt 21:34
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    34When the season for the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the farmers, to receive his fruit.

  • Hag 1:10
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    10Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit.

  • Jer 5:24
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    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.'

  • Rom 5:4
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    4and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope:

  • Luke 21:19
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    19"By your endurance you will win your lives.

  • Isa 18:5
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    5For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and he will cut down and take away the spreading branches.

  • John 4:35-36
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    35Don't you say, 'There are yet four months until the harvest?' Behold, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already.

    36He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit to eternal life; that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.

  • Zech 10:1
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    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.

  • Isa 5:7
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    7For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.

  • Jas 1:12
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    12Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

  • Jas 1:19
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    19So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

  • Lam 3:25-26
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    25Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul that seeks him.

    26It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.

  • Ps 126:5-6
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    5Those who sow in tears will reap in joy.

    6He who goes out weeping, carrying seed for sowing, will certainly come again with joy, carrying his sheaves. A Song of Ascents. By Solomon.

  • Luke 12:36
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    36Be like men watching for their lord, when he returns from the marriage feast; that, when he comes and knocks, they may immediately open to 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 you may gather in your grain, and your new wine, and your oil.

  • Ps 37:9
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    9For evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait for Yahweh shall inherit the land.

  • Mark 12:2
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    2When it was time, he sent a servant to the farmer to get from the farmer his share of the fruit of the vineyard.

  • Jas 1:7
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    7For let that man not think that he will receive anything from the Lord.

  • 2 Thess 1:5
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    5This is an obvious sign of the righteous judgment of God, to the end that you may be counted worthy of the Kingdom of God, for which you also suffer.