James 1:4 - CSB - But endurance must do its complete work, so that you may be mature and complete, lacking nothing. (2024)

But endurance must do its complete work, so that you may be mature and complete, lacking nothing.

Parallel Translations

New American Standard Bible (1995)
And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

Simplified Cowboy Version
And if you keep on keepin' on, you'll make a top hand yet. There won't be nothin' you won't be able to tackle or ride.

Bible in Basic English
But let this power have its full effect, so that you may be made complete, needing nothing.

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

World English Bible
Let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
that ye may be perfect and intire, wanting nothing.

Weymouth's New Testament
Only let endurance have perfect results so that you may become perfect and complete, deficient in nothing.

King James Version (1611)
But let patience haue her perfect worke, that ye may be perfect, and entier, wanting nothing.

Literal Translation
But let patience have its perfective work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and let pacience haue her parfect worke, yt ye maye be parfecte aud sounde, lakinge nothinge.

Mace New Testament (1729)
but constancy should be brought to its perfection, that you may be entirely accomplished, without any defect.

Amplified Bible
And let endurance have its perfect result and do a thorough work, so that you may be perfect and completely developed [in your faith], lacking in nothing.

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

Revised Standard Version
And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
and let pacience have her parfect worke that ye maye be parfecte and sounde lackinge nothinge.

Update Bible Version
And let patience have [its] perfect work, that you may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing.

Webster's Bible Translation
But let patience have [her] perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.

Young's Literal Translation
and let the endurance have a perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire -- in nothing lacking;

New Century Version
Let your patience show itself perfectly in what you do. Then you will be perfect and complete and will have everything you need.

Contextual Overview

² Consider it a great joy, my brothers, whenever you experience various trials, ³ knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. ⁴ But endurance must do its complete work, so that you may be mature and complete, lacking nothing. ⁵ Now if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives to all generously and without criticizing, and it will be given to him. ⁶ But let him ask in faith without doubting. For the doubter is like the surging sea, driven and tossed by the wind. ⁷ That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord. ⁸ An indecisive man is unstable in all his ways. ⁹ The brother of humble circ*mstances should boast in his exaltation, ¹⁰ but the one who is rich should boast in his humiliation because he will pass away like a flower of the field. ¹¹ For the sun rises with its scorching heat and dries up the grass; its flower falls off, and its beautiful appearance is destroyed. In the same way, the rich man will wither away while pursuing his activities.

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Bible Verse Review
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let: James 5:7-11, Job 17:9, Psalms 37:7, Psalms 40:1, Habakkuk 2:3, Matthew 10:22, Luke 8:15, Luke 21:19, Galatians 6:9

perfect and: James 3:2, Proverbs 4:8, Matthew 5:48, John 17:23, 1 Corinthians 2:6, Philippians 3:12-15, Colossians 4:12, 2 Timothy 3:17, Hebrews 13:21, 1 Peter 5:10, 1 John 4:17, 1 John 4:18

wanting: James 1:5, Matthew 19:20, Mark 10:21, Luke 18:22, 2 Peter 1:9

Reciprocal: Numbers 11:15 - kill me Job 1:22 - In all this Romans 8:25 - with patience Romans 8:28 - we know Romans 12:12 - patient 2 Corinthians 4:17 - worketh 2 Corinthians 13:11 - Be perfect Philippians 3:15 - as 1 Thessalonians 1:3 - and patience 2 Thessalonians 1:4 - your patience Hebrews 6:1 - let Hebrews 10:36 - ye have 1 Peter 1:7 - the trial 2 Peter 1:6 - patience Revelation 2:3 - hast patience

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Cross-References

Genesis 1:10
God called the dry land "earth," and He called the gathering of the water "seas." And God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:12
The earth produced vegetation: seed-bearing plants according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:18
to dominate the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:25
So God made the wildlife of the earth according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and creatures that crawl on the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:31
God saw all that He had made, and it was very good. Evening came and then morning: the sixth day.

Ecclesiastes 2:13
And I realized that there is an advantage to wisdom over folly, like the advantage of light over darkness.

Ecclesiastes 11:7
Light is sweet, and it is pleasing for the eyes to see the sun.

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Gill's Notes on the Bible

But let patience have her perfect work,.... Or effect; or be brought unto perfection; which may denote both the sincerity and continuance of it unto the end, with constancy: patience may be said to be perfect, when it appears to be real and sincere, and not dissembled; for as there may be a feigned faith, a dissembled love, and an hypocritical hope, so likewise a mere show of patience: and certain it is, that as there is a patience which is commendable, there is one that is not, 1 Peter 2:20. And this phrase may also design the constant exercise of this grace to the end; for he that endures, or is patient, and continues so unto the end, shall be saved, and enjoy that perfection of glory and happiness expressed in the next clause:

that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing; which cannot be understood of the saints in this present life; only as they are in Christ, and in a comparative sense; or as perfection may denote sincerity, and uprightness; or of a perfection of parts, but not of degrees; for the saints are very imperfect in themselves, and are very far from being complete in soul, body, and spirit; and want many things, and are wanting in many things, both in the exercise of grace, and in the discharge of duty; but when patience has had its perfect work, and has been tried to the uttermost, and is found right, and has held out to the end; then shall the saints be perfect in holiness and happiness, and be entire, whole, and complete; as they will be in the resurrection morn, both in soul and body, and will want no good thing, and will be free from every sorrow, nor will they be deficient in any service; and to this sense agrees James 1:12.

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

But let patience have her perfect work - Let it be fairly developed; let it produce its appropriate effects without being hindered. Let it not be obstructed in its fair influence on the soul by murmurings, complaining, or rebellion. Patience under trials is fitted to produce important effects on the soul, and we are not to hinder them in any manner by a perverse spirit, or by opposition to the will of God. Every one who is afflicted should desire that the fair effects of affliction should be produced on his mind, or that there should be produced in his soul precisely the results which his trials are adapted to accomplish.

That ye may be perfect and entire - The meaning of this is explained in the following phrase - “wanting nothing;” that is, that there may be nothing lacking to complete your character. There may be the elements of a good character; there may be sound principles, but those principles may not be fully carried out so as to show what they are. Afflictions, perhaps more than anything else, will do this, and we should therefore allow them to do all that they are adapted to do in developing what is good in us. The idea here is, that it is desirable not only to have the elements or principles of piety in the soul, but to have them fairly carried out, so as to show what is their real tendency and value. Compare the notes at 1 Peter 1:7. On the word “perfect,” as used in the Scriptures, see the notes at Job 1:1. The word rendered “entire” (ὁλόκληροι holoklēroi) means, whole in every part. Compare the notes at 1 Thessalonians 5:23. The word occurs only in these two places. The corresponding noun (ὁλοκληρία holoklēria) occurs in Acts 3:16, rendered “perfect soundness.”

Wanting nothing - “Being left in nothing;” that is, everything being complete, or fully carried out.

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Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse James 1:4. Let patience have her perfect work — That is, Continue faithful, and your patience will be crowned with its full reward; for in this sense is εργον, which we translate work, to be understood. It is any effect produced by a cause, as interest from money, fruit from tillage, gain from labour, a reward for services performed; the perfect work is the full reward. See many examples in Kypke.

That ye may be perfect and entire — τελειοι, Fully instructed, in every part of the doctrine of God, and in his whole will concerning you. ολοκληροι, having all your parts, members, and portions; that ye may have every grace which constitutes the mind that was in Christ, so that your knowledge and holiness may be complete, and bear a proper proportion to each other. These expressions in their present application are by some thought to be borrowed from the Grecian games: the man was τελειος, perfect, who in any of the athletic exercises had got the victory; he was ολοκληοος, entire, having every thing complete, who had the victory in the pentathlon, in each of the five exercises. Of this use in the last term I do not recollect an example, and therefore think the expressions are borrowed from the sacrifices under the law. A victim was τελειος, perfect, that was perfectly sound, having no disease; it was ολοκληρος, entire, if it had all its members, having nothing redundant, nothing deficient. Be then to the Lord what he required his sacrifices to be; let your whole heart, your body, soul, and spirit, be sanctified to the Lord of hosts, that he may fill you with all his fulness.

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James 1:4 - CSB - But endurance must do its complete work, so that you may be mature and complete, lacking nothing. (2024)

Parallel Translations

Contextual Overview

Bible Verse Review from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Cross-References

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

References

Bible Verse Review
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