James 1:4 KJV — MannaFest

James 1:4

But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.

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ASV

And let patience have its perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing.

WEB

Allow perseverance to finish its work, so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.

YLT

and let the endurance have a perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire--in nothing lacking;

DBT

But let endurance have [its] perfect work, that ye may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

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James — The Lord's brother writes to the twelve tribes scattered abroad — five chapters of direct, practical wisdom on the life faith produces. Pure religion, the tongue, the prayer of the righteous.

Author: James the Lord's brother (traditional — cf. Gal 1:19), leader of the Jerusalem church
Date: Early — possibly mid-40s AD, making it likely the earliest NT letter

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Matthew 5:48
Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
1 Peter 5:10
But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
Luke 21:19
In your patience possess ye your souls.
2 Timothy 3:17
That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.
Galatians 6:9
And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

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But those sins which bring sufferings, or the weakness and faults men are chargeable with under them, are by no means to be imputed to God, who cannot be the author of sin, but is the author of all good,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Let endurance have a perfect work (taken out of the previous "worketh patience" or endurance), that is, have its full effect, by showing the most perfect degree of endurance, namely, "joy in bearing the cross" [MENOCHIUS], and enduring to the end (Mt 10:22) [CALVIN]. ye may be perfect--fully developed in all the attributes of a Christian character.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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