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


In Context

1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.

2 My brothers, count it all joy when you fall into divers temptations;

3 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith works patience.

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

5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that gives to all men liberally, and upbraides not; and it shall be given him.

6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavers is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.

James 1:4 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:4But let patience have [her] perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

1:4Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:4But let endurance have its perfect work, that ye may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

1:4And patience hath a perfect work; that you may be perfect and entire, failing in nothing.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

1:4And let patience have its perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

1:4And let patience have its perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:4But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:4Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

1:4and let the endurance have a perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire — in nothing lacking;