James 1:4
Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
World Messianic Bible British
In The King James Version
But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
In Context
3knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
Cross References
Job 17:9Yet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.
Psalms 40:1I waited patiently for the LORD. He turned to me, and heard my cry.
Habakkuk 2:3For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries towards the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it, because it will surely come. It won’t delay.
Matthew 10:22You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.
Mark 10:21Yeshua looking at him loved him, and said to him, “One thing you lack. Go, sell whatever you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me, taking up the cross.”
Luke 18:22When Yeshua heard these things, he said to him, “You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have and distribute it to the poor. Then you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.”
Matthew Henry on James 1:3-13
Necessity of Faith and Patience; Evil of Indecision. ( a. d. 61.) 2 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; 3 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. 4 But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. 5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. 6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea… Read the whole commentary →