James 5:7-12 - Exhortation To Patience

⁷ Be patient, therefore, brethren, until the Presence of the Lord: - Lo! the husbandman, awaiteth the precious fruit of the earth, having patience for it, until it receive the early and the latter rain: ⁸ Be, ye also, patient, Stablish your hearts, because, the Presence of the Lord, hath drawn near.

⁹ Be not sighing, brethren, one against another, lest ye be judged, - Lo! the Judge, before the doors, is standing.

¹⁰ An example, take ye, brethren, of distress and patience, - the prophets who have spoken in the name of the Lord. ¹¹ Lo! we pronounce them happy who have endured; - Of the endurance of Job, ye have heard, and, the end of the Lord, have ye seen, - that, of much tender affection, is the Lord, and full of compassion,

¹² But, before all things, my brethren, do not swear, - either by heaven, or by the earth, or by any other oath; but let your Yea be yea, and your Nay nay, - lest, under judgment, ye fall.