James 1:4

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Let perseverance complete its work, so that you may be mature and complete, lacking nothing.

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  • Matt 5:48 : 48 Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
  • Hab 2:3 : 3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time; it speaks of the end and will not prove false. Though it may delay, wait for it, for it will surely come and will not be late.
  • Luke 21:19 : 19 By your endurance, you will gain your lives.
  • Job 17:9 : 9 Yet the righteous hold to their way, and those with clean hands grow stronger.
  • Col 4:12 : 12 Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, greets you. He is always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand mature and fully assured in all the will of God.
  • 2 Tim 3:17 : 17 so that the servant of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.
  • Heb 13:21 : 21 equip you with every good thing to do His will, working in us what is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
  • Jas 1:5 : 5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without rebuke, and it will be given to him.
  • Jas 3:2 : 2 For we all stumble in many ways. If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to also control his whole body.
  • Jas 5:7-9 : 7 Therefore, be patient, brothers and sisters, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient for it until it receives the early and late rains. 8 You too must be patient. Strengthen your hearts, because the coming of the Lord is near. 9 Do not grumble against one another, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be judged. Look, the Judge is standing at the door. 10 Take, my brothers and sisters, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord as an example of suffering and patience. 11 See, we consider those who have endured to be blessed. You have heard of Job's perseverance and have seen the Lord's outcome—that the Lord is very compassionate and merciful.
  • 1 Pet 5:10 : 10 But the God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered for a little while, will Himself restore, establish, strengthen, and uphold you.
  • Ps 37:7 : 7 Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for Him; do not fret over the one who prospers in his way, over the man who carries out wicked schemes.
  • Ps 40:1 : 1 For the director: A psalm of David.
  • Prov 4:8 : 8 Prize her, and she will exalt you; she will honor you when you embrace her.
  • Matt 10:22 : 22 You will be hated by everyone because of my name. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.
  • Matt 19:20 : 20 The young man said to him, "I have kept all these. What do I still lack?"
  • Mark 10:21 : 21 Jesus looked at him and loved him. 'One thing you lack,' he said. 'Go, sell everything you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.'
  • Luke 8:15 : 15 But the seed on good soil represents those with a noble and good heart, who hear the word, retain it, and produce a harvest through perseverance.
  • Luke 18:22 : 22 When Jesus heard this, he said to him, 'You still lack one thing. Sell everything you have and distribute it to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.'
  • John 17:23 : 23 I in them and You in Me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that You sent Me and have loved them even as You have loved Me.
  • 1 Cor 2:6 : 6 Now, we do speak wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are passing away.
  • Gal 6:9 : 9 Let us not grow weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
  • Phil 3:12-15 : 12 Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. 13 Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal to win the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. 15 Let all of us who are mature think this way. And if in anything you think differently, that too God will reveal to you.
  • 2 Pet 1:9 : 9 But whoever lacks these qualities is blind and short-sighted, forgetful of the cleansing of their former sins.
  • 1 John 4:17-18 : 17 In this, love has been made complete with us, so that we may have confidence on the day of judgment, because as He is, so also are we in this world. 18 There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear involves punishment. The one who fears has not been made perfect in love.

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