Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
Take as an example of pain nobly undergone and of strength in trouble, the prophets who gave to men the words of the Lord.
New American Standard Bible
As an example,
King James Version
Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.
Holman Bible
Brothers, take the prophets who spoke in the Lord’s name as an example of suffering and patience.
International Standard Version
As an example of suffering and patience, brothers, take the prophets, who spoke in the name of the Lord.
A Conservative Version
Take an example, my brothers, of evil-suffering and longsuffering, the prophets who spoke in the name of Lord.
American Standard Version
Take, brethren, for an example of suffering and of patience, the prophets who spake in the name of the Lord.
Amplified
As an example, brothers and sisters, of suffering and patience, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord [as His messengers and representatives].
An Understandable Version
Brothers, take the [Old Testament] prophets, who spoke in the name [i.e., by the authority] of the Lord, as your examples of suffering and patience.
Anderson New Testament
Take, my brethren, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord, as an example of suffering evil, and of patience.
Common New Testament
As an example, brethren, of suffering and patience, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.
Daniel Mace New Testament
let the prophets, my brethren, who were commission'd by the Lord, be your examples; suffer persecution with constancy like them.
Darby Translation
Take as an example, brethren, of suffering and having patience, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord.
Godbey New Testament
Brethren, receive the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord as an example of suffering evil and longsuffering.
Goodspeed New Testament
As an example, brothers, of ill-treatment patiently endured, take the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord.
John Wesley New Testament
Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering, affliction, and of patience.
Julia Smith Translation
Take a pattern of affliction, my brethren, and of longsuffering, the prophets, who spake in the name of the Lord.
King James 2000
Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Brothers, take [as an] example of perseverance and endurance the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.
Modern King James verseion
My brothers, take the prophets who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering ill, and of patience.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Take, my brethren, the prophets: for an example of suffering adversity, and of long patience, which spake in the name of the Lord.
Moffatt New Testament
As an example of fortitude and endurance, brothers, take the prophets who have spoken in the name of the Lord.
Montgomery New Testament
Take, my brothers, for an example the suffering and the patience of the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.
NET Bible
As an example of suffering and patience, brothers and sisters, take the prophets who spoke in the Lord's name.
New Heart English Bible
Take, brothers, for an example of suffering and of patience, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.
Noyes New Testament
Take, brethren, the prophets, who spoke in the name of the Lord, for an example of affliction, and of patience.
Sawyer New Testament
You have the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord, my brothers, as an example of patience and long-suffering.
The Emphasized Bible
An example, take ye, brethren, of distress and patience, - the prophets who have spoken in the name of the Lord.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
My brethren, take a pattern for suffering affliction, and patience from the prophets, who have spoken to you in the name of the Lord.
Twentieth Century New Testament
Brothers, as an example of the patient endurance of suffering, take the Prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.
Webster
Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.
Weymouth New Testament
In illustration, brethren, of persecution patiently endured take the Prophets who have spoken as messengers from the Lord.
Williams New Testament
As an example of ill-treatment and patience, brothers, take the prophets, who spoke in the name of the Lord.
World English Bible
Take, brothers, for an example of suffering and of patience, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.
Worrell New Testament
Take, brethren, as an example of suffering and of patience, the prophets, who spake in the name of the Lord.
Worsley New Testament
Take for an example of enduring evil and of long-suffering the prophets, who spake in the name of the Lord.
Youngs Literal Translation
An example take ye of the suffering of evil, my brethren, and of the patience, the prophets who did speak in the name of the Lord;
Themes
Afflicted saints » Should imitate the prophets
Christian ministers » Patience of
Example » Good example, general references to
fruit of the Spirit » Patience
Patience » Instances of » The prophets
Prophecy » They who uttered » Spake in the name of the lord
Prophets » Spake in the name of the lord
Prophets » Great patience of, under suffering
Topics
Interlinear
References
Hastings
Word Count of 37 Translations in James 5:10
Verse Info
Context Readings
Exhortation To Patience
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.
Phrases
Cross References
Acts 7:52
Which of the prophets was not cruelly attacked by your fathers? and they put to death those who gave them the news of the coming of the Upright One; whom you have now given up and put to death;
Hebrews 11:32-38
What more am I to say? For there would not be time to give the stories of Gideon, Barak, Samson, and Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets:
2 Chronicles 36:16
But they put shame on the servants of God, making sport of his words and laughing at his prophets, till the wrath of God was moved against his people, till there was no help.
Isaiah 39:8
Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good is the word of the Lord which you have said. And he said in his heart, There will be peace and quiet in my days.
Jeremiah 2:30
I gave your children blows to no purpose; they got no good from training: your sword has been the destruction of your prophets, like a death-giving lion.
Jeremiah 23:22
But if they had been in my secret, then they would have made my people give ear to my words, turning them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.
Jeremiah 26:16
Then the rulers and all the people said to the priests and the prophets, It is not right for this man to be put to death: for he has said words to us in the name of the Lord our God.
Matthew 5:11-12
Happy are you when men give you a bad name, and are cruel to you, and say all evil things against you falsely, because of me.
Matthew 21:34-39
And when the time for the fruit came near, he sent his servants to the workmen, to get the fruit.
Matthew 23:34-37
For this reason, I send you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: some of them you will put to death and put on the cross, and to some of them you will give blows in your Synagogues, driving them from town to town;
Luke 6:23
Be glad in that day, and be lifted up for joy, for your reward in heaven will be great: for their fathers did these same things to the prophets.
Luke 13:34
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, putting to death the prophets, and stoning those who were sent to her! again and again would I have taken your children to myself, as a bird takes her young ones under her wings, but you would not!
Acts 3:21
Who is to be kept in heaven till the time when all things are put right, of which God has given word by the mouth of his holy prophets, who have been from the earliest times.
1 Thessalonians 2:14-15
For you, my brothers, took as your examples the churches of God which are in Judaea in Christ Jesus; because you underwent the same things from your countrymen as they did from the Jews;
Hebrews 13:7
Keep in mind those who were over you, and who gave you the word of God; seeing the outcome of their way of life, let your faith be like theirs.