New Testament · SCRIPTURE
James 1:4
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Allow perseverance to finish its work, so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.
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But let patience have [her] perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
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Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
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ASVAmerican Standard Version
And let patience have [its] perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing.
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And let endurance have [its] perfect work, so that you⁺ may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
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James 1
2 Consider it pure joy, my brothers, when you encounter trials of many kinds,
3 because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance.
4 Allow perseverance to finish its work, so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.
5 Now if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him.
6 But he must ask in faith, without doubting, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.
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