James 1:4 - The Scriptures 1998

⁴ And let endurance have a perfect work, so that you be perfect and complete, lacking in naught.

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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.

James 1:4 Cross References

Job 17:9

And the righteous holds to his way, and he who has clean hands becomes stronger and stronger.

Psalm 37:7

Rest in יהוה, and wait patiently for Him; Do not fret because of him who prospers in his way, Because of the man doing wicked devices.

Psalm 40:1

I waited, waited for יהוה ; And He inclined to me, and heard my cry.

Proverbs 4:8

“Exalt her, and let her uplift you; She brings you esteem when you embrace her.

Habakkuk 2:3

“For the vision is yet for an appointed time, and it speaks of the end, and does not lie. If it lingers, wait for it, for it shall certainly come, it shall not delay.

Matthew 10:22

“And you shall be hated by all for My Name’s sake. But he who shall have endured to the end shall be saved.

Matthew 19:20

The young man said to Him, “All these I have watched over from my youth, what do I still lack?”

Matthew 5:48

“Therefore, be perfect, as your Father in the heavens is perfect.

Mark 10:21

And יהושע, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, “One matter you lack: Go, sell all you possess and give to the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven. And come, follow Me, taking up the stake.”

Luke 18:22

And hearing this, יהושע  said to him, “Yet one you lack: Sell all that you have and distribute to the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven. And come, follow Me.”

Luke 21:19

“Possess your lives by your endurance!

Luke 8:15

“And that on the good soil are those who, having heard the word with a noble and good heart, retain it, and bear fruit with endurance.

John 17:23

“I in them, and You in Me, so that they might be perfected into one, so that the world knows that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me.

1 Corinthians 2:6

Yet we speak wisdom among those who are perfect, and not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age that are being brought to naught.

Galatians 6:9

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

Colossians 4:12

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Messiah, greets you, always wrestling for you in prayers, so that you stand perfect and complete in all the desire of Elohim.

1 Thessalonians 5:23

And the Elohim of peace Himself set you completely apart, and your entire spirit, and being, and body - be preserved blameless at the coming of our Master יהושע  Messiah!

2 Timothy 3:17

that the man of Elohim might be fitted, equipped for every good work.

Hebrews 13:21

make you perfectin every good work to do His desire, working in youwhat is pleasing in His sight, through יהושע  Messiah, to whom be esteem forever and ever. Amĕ

James 1:5

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

James 3:2

For we all stumble in many matters. If anyone does not stumble in word, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle the entire body.

1 Peter 5:10

And the Elohim of all favour, who called you to His everlasting esteem by Messiah יהושע, after you have suffered a while, Himself perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

2 Peter 1:9

For he in whom these are not present is blind, being shortsighted, and has forgotten that he has been cleansed from his old sins.