James 5:7

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Summary

Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.

Be patient

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Be patient

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.

To those who go on with good works in the hope of glory and honour and salvation from death, he will give eternal life:

For our salvation is by hope: but hope which is seen is not hope: for who is hoping for what he sees?

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.

But in everything making it clear that we are the servants of God, in quiet strength, in troubles, in need, in sorrow,

For we through the Spirit by faith are waiting for the hope of righteousness.

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.

Full of strength in the measure of the great power of his glory, so that you may undergo all troubles with joy;

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;

And so, when he had been waiting calmly for a long time, God's word to him was put into effect.

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,

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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.

And the chief things of the oldest mountains, and the good things of the eternal hills,

By going through all these things, you will keep your lives.

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