James 1:4 - English Majority Text Version 2009

⁴ But let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be mature and complete, lacking nothing.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ But let endurance and steadfastness and patience have full play and do a thorough work, so that you may be [people] perfectly and fully developed [with no defects], lacking in nothing.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ And let patience have its perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing.

Common English Bible

⁴ Let this endurance complete its work so that you may be fully mature, complete, and lacking in nothing.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ and patience brings a work to perfection, so that you may be perfect and whole, deficient in nothing.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ And patience hath a perfect work; that you may be perfect and entire, failing in nothing.

James 1:4 Cross References

Matthew 10:22

And you will be hated by all [people ]for My name's sake. But he who endures to the end shall be saved.

Matthew 19:20

The young man said to Him, "All these have I kept from my youth. What do I still lack?"

Matthew 5:48

You therefore be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

Mark 10:21

Then Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, "One thing you lack: Go, sell all that you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, take up the cross, and follow Me."

Luke 18:22

So when Jesus heard these things, He said to him, "Still one thing you lack: sell all that you have and give to the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me."

Luke 21:19

By your patient endurance you shall possess your souls.

Luke 8:15

But that which fell on the good ground, these are such who when they heard the word, with a noble and good heart, hold on to it and bear fruit with endurance.

John 17:23

I in them, and You in Me; so that they may be perfected in unity, and so that the world may know that You have sent Me, and You loved them just as You loved Me.

1 Corinthians 2:6

However, we speak wisdom among those that are mature, but not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are being destroyed.

Galatians 6:9

And while we do good, let us not lose heart, for in due season we shall reap if we do not become weary.

Colossians 4:12

Epaphras greets you, who is one of you, a bondservant of Christ, always struggling for you in his prayers, that you may stand mature and complete in all the will of God.

1 Thessalonians 5:23

Now [may] the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Timothy 3:17

that the man of God may be proficient, having been thoroughly equipped for every good work.

Hebrews 13:21

make you complete in every good work to do His will, working in you what is well pleasing before Him, through Jesus Christ, to whom [be] glory forever and ever. Amen.

James 1:5

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it shall be given to him.

James 3:2

For we all stumble in many [ways]. If anyone does not stumble in word, he is a mature man, able also to bridle the whole body.

1 Peter 5:10

But may the God of all grace, the [One ]having called you into His eternal glory in Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little [while], may He Himself make you complete-He will establish, strengthen, [and] firmly ground [you].

2 Peter 1:9

For [he] who lacks these things is blind, being shortsighted, having forgotten the cleansing of his past sins.