Verse 5

Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is near.

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  • Jas 5:8-9 : 8 Be also patient; establish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord is near. 9 Do not grumble against one another, brethren, lest you be condemned: behold, the judge stands before the door.
  • Titus 3:2 : 2 To speak evil of no one, to be peaceable, gentle, showing all humility to all men.
  • Matt 6:25 : 25 Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?
  • Matt 6:34 : 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
  • Luke 6:29-35 : 29 And to him who strikes you on one cheek, offer also the other; and to him who takes away your cloak, do not withhold your coat also. 30 Give to everyone who asks of you; and from him who takes away your goods, do not ask them back. 31 And as you would that men should do to you, do also to them likewise. 32 For if you love those who love you, what thanks do you have? for sinners also love those who love them. 33 And if you do good to those who do good to you, what thanks do you have? for sinners also do the same. 34 And if you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what thanks do you have? for sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as much again. 35 But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return; and your reward shall be great, and you shall be children of the Highest: for he is kind to the unthankful and to the evil.
  • Luke 12:22-30 : 22 And he said to his disciples, Therefore I say to you, Do not be anxious for your life, what you shall eat; nor for the body, what you shall wear. 23 Life is more than food, and the body more than clothes. 24 Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; they have neither storehouse nor barn; and God feeds them: how much more are you better than the birds? 25 And which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature? 26 If you then are not able to do the least thing, why are you anxious about the rest? 27 Consider the lilies how they grow: they do not labor, they do not spin; and yet I say to you, that Solomon in all his glory was not dressed like one of these. 28 If then God so clothes the grass, which today is in the field and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith? 29 And do not seek what you shall eat, or what you shall drink, nor be of anxious mind. 30 For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knows that you need these things.
  • 1 Cor 6:7 : 7 Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because you go to law one with another. Why do you not rather accept wrong? Why do you not rather allow yourselves to be defrauded?
  • Matt 5:39-42 : 39 But I say to you, do not resist an evil person: but whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also. 40 If anyone wants to sue you and take away your tunic, let him have your cloak also. 41 And whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two. 42 Give to him who asks you, and from him who wants to borrow from you do not turn away.
  • 2 Thess 2:2 : 2 That you be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as if the day of Christ is at hand.
  • 1 Pet 1:11 : 11 Searching for what, or what manner of time, the Spirit of Christ in them was indicating, when He testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would follow.
  • 1 Pet 4:7 : 7 But the end of all things is at hand: be therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
  • 2 Pet 3:8-9 : 8 But, beloved, do not be ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. 9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is patient toward us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. 10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are in it shall be burned up. 11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in all holy conduct and godliness, 12 Looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, in which the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? 13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, where righteousness dwells. 14 Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for such things, be diligent that you may be found by him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
  • Rev 22:7 : 7 Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he who keeps the sayings of the prophecy of this book.
  • Rev 22:20 : 20 He who testifies to these things says, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
  • Heb 13:5-6 : 5 Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with what you have. For He has said, 'I will never leave you, nor forsake you.' 6 So that we may boldly say, 'The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do to me.'
  • Heb 10:25 : 25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.
  • Heb 10:37 : 37 For yet a little while, and he who is coming will come and will not tarry.
  • 1 Cor 7:29-31 : 29 But this I say, brethren, the time is short; so that from now on, even those who have wives should be as though they had none, 30 those who weep, as though they did not weep; those who rejoice, as though they did not rejoice; those who buy, as though they did not possess, 31 and those who use this world, as not misusing it. For the form of this world is passing away.
  • 1 Cor 8:13 : 13 Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will eat no meat as long as the world stands, lest I make my brother stumble.
  • 1 Cor 9:25 : 25 And everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an imperishable.
  • 1 Thess 5:2-4 : 2 For you know perfectly that the day of the Lord comes as a thief in the night. 3 For when they say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. 4 But you, brothers, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
  • Luke 21:34 : 34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be burdened with surfeiting, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day comes upon you unexpectedly.
  • Matt 24:48-50 : 48 But if that evil servant says in his heart, My master is delaying his coming, 49 and begins to beat his fellow servants, and to eat and drink with the drunkards, 50 the master of that servant will come on a day when he is not looking for him, and at an hour that he is not aware of,