James 1:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.

James 1:4 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Luke 21:19
In your patience possess ye your souls.
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.
Matthew 5:48
Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
2 Timothy 3:17
That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.
Habakkuk 2:3
For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Anger Character Decision Emergency Endurance Faith Faithfulness

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 2-12)

We now come to consider the matter of this epistle. In this paragraph we have the following things to be observed:— I. The suffering state of Christians in this world is represented, and that in a very instructive manner, if we attend to what is plainly and necessarily implied, together with what is fully expressed. 1. It is implied that troubles and afflictions may be the lot of the best Christia…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 4)

4. 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. For this there is required “joy” [Bengel], as…