James 1:4
Good News Translation
Make sure that your endurance carries you all the way without failing, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.

New Revised Standard Version
and let endurance have its full effect, so that you may be mature and complete, lacking in nothing.

Contemporary English Version
But you must learn to endure everything, so you will be completely mature and not lacking in anything.

New American Bible
And let perseverance be perfect, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And patience hath a perfect work: that you may be perfect and entire, failing in nothing.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And patience hath a perfect work: that you may be perfect and entire, failing in nothing.

let.

James 5:7-11 Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth: patiently bearing till he receive the early and latter rain. . . .

Job 17:9 And the just man shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.

Psalm 37:7 Be subject to the Lord and pray to him. Envy not the man who prospereth in his way; the man who doth unjust things.

Psalm 40:1 Unto the end, a psalm for David himself. [2] With expectation I have waited for the Lord, and he was attentive to me.

Habakkuk 2:3 For as yet the vision is far off, and it shall appear at the end, and shall not lie: if it make any delay, wait for it: for it shall surely come, and it shall not be slack.

Matthew 10:22 And you shall be hated by all men for my name's sake: but he that shall persevere unto the end, he shall be saved.

Luke 8:15 But that on the good ground are they who in a good and perfect heart, hearing the word, keep it and bring forth fruit in patience.

Luke 21:19 In your patience you shall possess your souls.

Galatians 6:9 And in doing good, let us not fail. For in due time we shall reap, not failing.

perfect and.

James 3:2 For in many things we all offend. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man. He is able also with a bridle to lead about the whole body.

Proverbs 4:8 She shall give to thy head increase of graces, and protect thee with a noble crown.

Matthew 5:48 Be you therefore perfect, as also your heavenly Father is perfect.

John 17:23 I in them, and thou in me: that they may be made perfect in one: and the world may know that thou hast sent me and hast loved them, as thou hast also loved me.

1 Corinthians 2:6 Howbeit we speak wisdom among the perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, neither of the princes of this world that come to nought.

Philippians 3:12-15 Not as though I had already attained, or were already perfect: but I follow after, if I may by any means apprehend, wherein I am also apprehended by Christ Jesus. . . .

Colossians 4:12 Epaphras saluteth you, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, who is always solicitous for you in prayers, that you may stand perfect and full in all the will of God.

2 Timothy 3:17 That the man of God may be perfect, furnished to every good work.

Hebrews 13:21 Fit you in all goodness, that you may do his will; doing in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom is glory for ever and ever. Amen.

1 Peter 5:10 But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory in Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little, will himself perfect you and confirm you and establish you.

1 John 4:17,18 In this is the charity of God perfected with us, that we may have confidence in the day of judgment: because as he is, we also are in this world. . . .

wanting.

James 1:5 But if any of you want wisdom, let him ask of God who giveth to all men abundantly and upbraideth not. And it shall be given him.

Matthew 19:20 The young man saith to him: All these have I kept from my youth, what is yet wanting to me?

Mark 10:21 And Jesus, looking on him, loved him and said to him: One thing is wanting unto thee. Go, sell whatsoever thou hast and give to the poor: and thou shalt have treasure in heaven. And come, follow me.

Luke 18:22 Which when Jesus had heard, he said to him: Yet one thing is wanting to thee. Sell all whatever thou hast and give to the poor: and thou shalt have treasure in heaven. And come, follow me.

2 Peter 1:9 For he that hath not these things with him is blind and groping, having forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.

Context
Rejoicing in Trials
3Knowing that the trying of your faith worketh patience 4And patience hath a perfect work: that you may be perfect and entire, failing in nothing. 5But if any of you want wisdom, let him ask of God who giveth to all men abundantly and upbraideth not. And it shall be given him.…
Cross References
Matthew 5:48
Be you therefore perfect, as also your heavenly Father is perfect.

Luke 21:19
In your patience you shall possess your souls.

Colossians 4:12
Epaphras saluteth you, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, who is always solicitous for you in prayers, that you may stand perfect and full in all the will of God.

1 Thessalonians 5:23
And may the God of peace himself sanctify you in all things: that your whole spirit and soul and body may be preserved blameless in the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

James 3:2
For in many things we all offend. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man. He is able also with a bridle to lead about the whole body.

James 1:3
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