Advent · Third Sunday in Advent · Year A
James 5:7-11
December 14, 2025

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Commentary on James 5:7-10 workingpreacher.org
Reads James' call to patient endurance through the example of Job and the question of why the innocent suffer.
Epistle: James 5:7-11 (Advent 3: Series A) 1517.org
1517's Series A epistle article walks through James 5:7-11's call to patient waiting for the Lord's coming, including the LSB-length verse 11.
James 5:7-10 Commentary cepreaching.org
Doug Bratt's CEP commentary treats patience in James 5:7-10 as a countercultural virtue rooted in trust in God's timing.
James 5 Commentary: The Life of a Living Faith enduringword.com
Guzik's verse-by-verse notes cover the farmer's patience and the examples of the prophets and Job in James 5:7-11.
James 5 - Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible studylight.org
Barnes' Notes explains the farmer analogy and the prophets/Job as examples of patient endurance in 5:7-11.
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