Parallel Verses
NET Bible
You also be patient and strengthen your hearts, for the Lord's return is near.
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.
Goodspeed New Testament
You must have patience too; you must keep up your courage, for the coming of the Lord is close at hand.
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!
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 and sisters, until the Lord's return. Think of how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the ground and is patient for it until it receives the early and late rains. 8 You also be patient and strengthen your hearts, for the Lord's return is near. 9 Do not grumble against one another, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be judged. See, the judge stands before the gates!
Cross References
1 Peter 4:7
For the culmination of all things is near. So be self-controlled and sober-minded for the sake of prayer.
Psalm 27:14
Rely on the Lord! Be strong and confident! Rely on the Lord!
Psalm 37:7
Wait patiently for the Lord! Wait confidently for him! Do not fret over the apparent success of a sinner, a man who carries out wicked schemes!
Psalm 40:1-3
For the music director; By David, a psalm. I relied completely on the Lord, and he turned toward me and heard my cry for help.
Psalm 130:5
I rely on the Lord, I rely on him with my whole being; I wait for his assuring word.
Philippians 4:5
Let everyone see your gentleness. The Lord is near!
Genesis 49:18
I wait for your deliverance, O Lord.
Lamentations 3:25-26
(Tet) The Lord is good to those who trust in him, to the one who seeks him.
Micah 7:7
But I will keep watching for the Lord; I will wait for the God who delivers me. My God will hear my lament.
Habakkuk 2:3
For the message is a witness to what is decreed; it gives reliable testimony about how matters will turn out. Even if the message is not fulfilled right away, wait patiently; for it will certainly come to pass -- it will not arrive late.
Romans 8:25
But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with endurance.
Romans 13:11-12
And do this because we know the time, that it is already the hour for us to awake from sleep, for our salvation is now nearer than when we became believers.
1 Thessalonians 1:10
and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus our deliverer from the coming wrath.
1 Thessalonians 3:13
so that your hearts are strengthened in holiness to be blameless before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.
2 Thessalonians 3:5
Now may the Lord direct your hearts toward the love of God and the endurance of Christ.
Hebrews 10:25-37
not abandoning our own meetings, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging each other, and even more so because you see the day drawing near.
James 5:9
Do not grumble against one another, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be judged. See, the judge stands before the gates!
Revelation 22:20
The one who testifies to these things says, "Yes, I am coming soon!" Amen! Come, Lord Jesus!
Galatians 5:22
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,