Parallel Verses
Goodspeed New Testament
You must have patience too; you must keep up your courage, for the coming of the Lord is close at hand.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
Holman Bible
You also must be patient. Strengthen your hearts, because the Lord’s coming is near.
International Standard Version
You, too, must be patient. Strengthen your hearts, because the coming of the Lord is near.
A Conservative Version
Be ye also patient. Establish your hearts, because the coming of the Lord has approached.
American Standard Version
Be ye also patient; establish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord is at hand.
Amplified
You too, be patient; strengthen your hearts [keep them energized and firmly committed to God], because the coming of the Lord is near.
An Understandable Version
[So], you people should be patient also; strengthen your hearts because the Lord's coming is near [Note: This may refer to the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70, or to Christ's final coming and judgment].
Anderson New Testament
Be you also patient, establish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draws near.
Bible in Basic English
Be as calm in your waiting; let your hearts be strong: because the coming of the Lord is near.
Common New Testament
You too be patient; strengthen your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is near.
Daniel Mace New Testament
be you equally patient, and exercise your fortitude, for the advent of the Lord is nigh.
Darby Translation
Ye also have patience: stablish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is drawn nigh.
Godbey New Testament
you also suffer long; establish your hearts; because the coming of the Lord is nigh.
John Wesley New Testament
Be ye also patient, stablish your hearts; for the coming of the Lord is nigh.
Julia Smith Translation
Be longsuffering, ye also; make your hearts firm: for the arrival of the Lord has drawn near.
King James 2000
Be also patient; establish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draws near.
Lexham Expanded Bible
You also be patient. Strengthen your hearts, because the coming of the Lord is near.
Modern King James verseion
You also be patient, establish your hearts, for the coming of your Lord draws near.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Be ye also patient therefore, and settle your hearts, for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
Moffatt New Testament
have patience yourselves, strengthen your hearts, for the arrival of the Lord is at hand.
Montgomery New Testament
So you also must be patient. Stablish your hearts; for the coming of the Lord is at hand!
NET Bible
You also be patient and strengthen your hearts, for the Lord's return is near.
New Heart English Bible
You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is near.
Noyes New Testament
Be ye also patient, establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
Sawyer New Testament
Do you also have long patience, confirm your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.
The Emphasized Bible
Be, ye also, patient, Stablish your hearts, because, the Presence of the Lord, hath drawn near.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts; for the coming of the Lord is at hand.
Twentieth Century New Testament
And you must be patient also, and not be discouraged; for the Lord's Coming is near.
Webster
Be ye also patient; establish your hearts; for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
Weymouth New Testament
So you also must be patient: keeping up your courage; for the Coming of the Lord is now close at hand.
Williams New Testament
You must be patient, too; you must put iron into your hearts, because the coming of the Lord is close at hand.
World English Bible
You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.
Worrell New Testament
Be ye also patient; establish your hearts, because the coming of the Lord has drawn near.
Worsley New Testament
Be ye also patient, establish your hearts; for the coming of the Lord is near.
Youngs Literal Translation
be patient, ye also; establish your hearts, because the presence of the Lord hath drawn nigh;
Themes
Coming of the lord jesus Christ » Being patient for the coming of the lord
fruit of the Spirit » Patience
The second coming of Christ » Saints » Should be patient unto
the future » The second coming of Christ » Spoken of as near at hand
Topics
Interlinear
Makrothumeo
References
Word Count of 37 Translations in James 5:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
Exhortation To Patience
7 So be patient, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. The farmer has to wait for the precious crop from the ground, and be patient with it, until it gets the early and the late rains. 8 You must have patience too; you must keep up your courage, for the coming of the Lord is close at hand. 9 Do not complain of one another, brothers, or you will be judged. The judge is standing right at the door!
Cross References
1 Peter 4:7
But the end of all things is near. Be serious and collected, therefore, and pray.
Philippians 4:5
Let all men see your forbearing spirit. The Lord is coming soon.
Romans 8:25
But when we hope for something that we do not see, we wait persistently for it.
Romans 13:11-12
All this especially, because you know this critical time and that it is time for you to wake from your sleep, for our salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed.
1 Thessalonians 1:10
and to wait for the coming from heaven of his Son, whom he raised from the dead??esus, our deliverer from God's coming wrath.
1 Thessalonians 3:13
so that your hearts may be strong and faultlessly pure in the sight of our God and Father, when our Lord Jesus appears with all his saints!
2 Thessalonians 3:5
May the Lord guide your hearts into a sense of God's love and into a steadfastness like Christ's.
Hebrews 10:25-37
Let us not neglect meeting together as some do, but let us encourage one another, all the more as you can see that the great Day is coming nearer.
James 5:9
Do not complain of one another, brothers, or you will be judged. The judge is standing right at the door!
Revelation 22:20
He who testifies to all this says, "It is true! I am coming very soon!" Amen! Come, Lord Jesus!
Galatians 5:22
But what the Spirit produces is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,