James 1:4

Geneva Bible (1560)

And let patience haue her perfect worke, that ye may be perfect & entier, lacking nothing.

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  • Matt 5:48 : 48 Ye shall therefore be perfit, as your Father which is in heauen, is perfite.
  • Hab 2:3 : 3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the last it shal speake, and not lie: though it tarie, waite: for it shall surely come, and shall not stay.
  • Luke 21:19 : 19 By your patience possesse your soules.
  • Job 17:9 : 9 But the righteous wil holde his way, & he whose hands are pure, shall increase his strength.
  • Col 4:12 : 12 Epaphras the seruant of Christ, which is one of you, saluteth you, and alwayes striueth for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect, and full in all the will of God.
  • 2 Tim 3:17 : 17 That the man of God may be absolute, being made perfect vnto all good workes.
  • Heb 13:21 : 21 Make you perfect in all good workes, to doe his will, working in you that which is pleasant in his sight through Iesus Christ, to whom be praise for euer and euer, Amen.
  • Jas 1:5 : 5 If any of you lacke wisedome, let him aske of God, which giueth to all men liberally, & reprocheth no man, and it shalbe giuen him.
  • Jas 3:2 : 2 For in many things we sinne all. If any man sinne not in word, he is a perfect man, and able to bridle all the body.
  • Jas 5:7-9 : 7 Be patient therefore, brethren, vnto the comming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman wayteth for the precious fruite of the earth, and hath long patience for it, vntill he receiue the former, and the latter rayne. 8 Be ye also patient therefore and settle your hearts: for ye comming of the Lord draweth nere. 9 Grudge not one against another, brethren, least ye be condemned: behold, the iudge standeth before the doore. 10 Take, my brethren, the Prophets for an ensample of suffering aduersitie, and of long patience, which haue spoken in the Name of the Lord. 11 Beholde, we count them blessed which endure. Ye haue heard of the patience of Iob, and haue knowen what ende the Lord made. For the Lord is very pitifull and mercifull.
  • 1 Pet 5:10 : 10 And the God of all grace, which hath called vs vnto his eternall glory by Christ Iesus, after that ye haue suffered a litle, make you perfite, confirme, strengthen and stablish you.
  • Ps 37:7 : 7 Waite patiently vpon the Lorde and hope in him: fret not thy selfe for him which prospereth in his way: nor for the man that bringeth his enterprises to passe.
  • Ps 40:1 : 1 To him that excelleth. A Psalme of Dauid. I Waited paciently for the Lorde, and he inclined vnto me, and heard my cry.
  • Prov 4:8 : 8 Exalt her, and she shall exalt thee: she shall bring thee to honour, if thou embrace her.
  • Matt 10:22 : 22 And yee shall be hated of all men for my Name: but he that endureth to the end, he shall be saued.
  • Matt 19:20 : 20 The yong man sayd vnto him, I haue obserued all these things from my youth: what lacke I yet?
  • Mark 10:21 : 21 And Iesus looked vpon him, & loued him, and sayde vnto him, One thing is lacking vnto thee. Go and sell all that thou hast, and giue to the poore, & thou shalt haue treasure in heauen, and come, followe me, and take vp the crosse.
  • Luke 8:15 : 15 But that which fell in good ground, are they which with an honest & good heart heare the worde, and keepe it, and bring forth fruite with patience.
  • Luke 18:22 : 22 Nowe when Iesus heard that, he saide vnto him, Yet lackest thou one thing. Sell all that euer thou hast, and distribute vnto the poore, and thou shalt haue treasure in heauen, and come followe mee.
  • John 17:23 : 23 I in them, and thou in mee, that they may be made perfect in one, and that the worlde may knowe that thou hast sent mee, and hast loued them, as thou hast loued me.
  • 1 Cor 2:6 : 6 And we speake wisedome among them that are perfect: not the wisedome of this world, neither of the princes of this world, which come to nought.
  • Gal 6:9 : 9 Let vs not therefore be weary of well doing: for in due season we shall reape, if we faint not.
  • Phil 3:12-15 : 12 Not as though I had alreadie attained to it, either were alreadie perfect: but I folow, if that I may comprehend that for whose sake also I am comprehended of Christ Iesus. 13 Brethren, I count not my selfe, that I haue attained to it, but one thing I doe: I forget that which is behinde, and endeuour my selfe vnto that which is before, 14 And followe hard toward the marke, for the prise of the hie calling of God in Christ Iesus. 15 Let vs therefore as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if yee be otherwise minded, God shall reueile euen the same vnto you.
  • 2 Pet 1:9 : 9 For he that hath not these things, is blinde, and can not see farre off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his olde sinnes.
  • 1 John 4:17-18 : 17 Herein is that loue perfect in vs, that we should haue boldnes in the day of iudgement: for as he is, euen so are we in this world. 18 There is no feare in loue, but perfect loue casteth out feare: for feare hath painefulnesse: and he that feareth, is not perfect in loue.

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  • 3 Knowing that ye trying of your faith bringeth forth patience,

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    5 If any of you lacke wisedome, let him aske of God, which giueth to all men liberally, & reprocheth no man, and it shalbe giuen him.

    6 But let him aske in faith, and wauer not: for hee that wauereth, is like a waue of the sea, tost of the winde, and caried away.

    7 Neither let that man thinke that hee shall receiue any thing of the Lord.

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    3 Neither that onely, but also we reioyce in tribulations, knowing that tribulation bringeth forth patience,

    4 And patience experience, and experience hope,

  • 36 For ye haue neede of patience, that after ye haue done the will of God, ye might receiue the promes.

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    5 Therefore giue euen all diligence thereunto: ioyne moreouer vertue with your faith: and with vertue, knowledge:

    6 And with knowledge, temperance: and with temperance, patience: and with patience, godlines:

  • 17 That the man of God may be absolute, being made perfect vnto all good workes.

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    10 Take, my brethren, the Prophets for an ensample of suffering aduersitie, and of long patience, which haue spoken in the Name of the Lord.

    11 Beholde, we count them blessed which endure. Ye haue heard of the patience of Iob, and haue knowen what ende the Lord made. For the Lord is very pitifull and mercifull.

  • Col 1:10-11
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    10 That ye might walke worthy of the Lord, & please him in all things, being fruitefull in all good workes, and increasing in the knowledge of God,

    11 Strengthened with all might through his glorious power, vnto all patience, and long suffering with ioyfulnesse,

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    7 Be patient therefore, brethren, vnto the comming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman wayteth for the precious fruite of the earth, and hath long patience for it, vntill he receiue the former, and the latter rayne.

    8 Be ye also patient therefore and settle your hearts: for ye comming of the Lord draweth nere.

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    11 And we desire that euery one of you shew the same diligence, to the full assurance of hope vnto the ende,

    12 That ye be not slouthfull, but followers of them, which through faith and patience, inherite the promises.

  • 4 So that we our selues reioyce of you in the Churches of God, because of your patience & faith in al your persecutions & tribulatios that ye suffer,

  • 19 By your patience possesse your soules.

  • 10 And the God of all grace, which hath called vs vnto his eternall glory by Christ Iesus, after that ye haue suffered a litle, make you perfite, confirme, strengthen and stablish you.

  • 12 That yee may behaue your selues honestly towarde them that are without, and that nothing be lacking vnto you.

  • 12 Blessed is ye man, that endureth tentation: for when he is tried, hee shall receiue the crowne of life, which the Lorde hath promised to them that loue him.

  • 15 Let vs therefore as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if yee be otherwise minded, God shall reueile euen the same vnto you.

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    6 Wherein yee reioyce, though nowe for a season (if neede require) yee are in heauinesse, through manifolde tentations,

    7 That the triall of your faith, being much more precious then golde that perisheth (though it be tried with fire) might bee founde vnto your praise, and honour and glorie at the appearing of Iesus Christ:

  • 5 And the Lord guide your hearts to the loue of God, and the waiting for of Christ.

  • 4 For whatsoeuer things are written aforetime, are writte for our learning, that we through patience, and comfort of the Scriptures might haue hope.

  • 25 But if we hope for that we see not, we doe with patience abide for it.

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    19 Wherefore my deare brethren, let euery man be swift to heare, slowe to speake, and slowe to wrath.

    20 For the wrath of man doeth not accomplish the righteousnesse of God.

  • 8 For if these things be among you, and abound, they will make you that ye neither shalbe idle, nor vnfruitfull in the acknowledging of our Lord Iesus Christ:

  • 21 Make you perfect in all good workes, to doe his will, working in you that which is pleasant in his sight through Iesus Christ, to whom be praise for euer and euer, Amen.

  • 7 So that ye are not destitute of any gift: wayting for the appearing of our Lord Iesus Christ.

  • 14 Wherefore, beloued, seeing that yee looke for such thinges, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot and blamelesse.

  • 17 But the wisedome that is from aboue, is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easie to be intreated, full of mercie & good fruites, without iudging, and without hipocrisie.

  • 5 Let your patient minde be knowen vnto all men. The Lord is at hand.

  • 13 Till we all meete together (in the vnitie of faith and that acknowledging of the Sonne of God) vnto a perfite man, and vnto the measure of the age of the fulnesse of Christ,

  • 22 Seest thou not that the faith wrought with his workes? and through the workes was the faith made perfect.

  • 40 God prouiding a better thing for vs, that they without vs should not be made perfite.

  • 14 And aboue all these thinges put on loue, which is the bond of perfectnes.

  • 10 But when that which is perfect, is come, then that which is in part, shalbe abolished.

  • 17 Euery good giuing, and euery perfect gift is from aboue, and commeth downe from the Father of lights, with whome is no variablenes, neither shadow of turning.

  • 4 To an inheritance immortall and vndefiled, and that withereth not, reserued in heauen for vs,

  • 14 And let ours also learne to shewe foorth good woorkes for necessary vses, that they be not vnfruitfull.

  • 10 That ye may alowe those things which are best, that ye may be pure, and without offence vntill the day of Christ,

  • 15 And so after that he had taried patiently, he enioyed the promes.

  • 12 Reioycing in hope, pacient in tribulation, continuing in prayer,

  • 3 And thou wast burdened, & hast patiece, and for my Names sake hast laboured, & hast not fainted.

  • 8 And God is able to make all grace to abound towarde you, that yee alwayes hauing all sufficiencie in all thinges, may abounde in euery good worke,