James 1:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

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

Let endurance have a perfect work (taken out of "worketh patience" or endurance); i:e. have its full effect, by showing perfect endurance-namely, joy in the cross (Menochius), and enduring to the end (Matthew 10:22) (Calvin).

Ye may be perfect - fully developed in all the attributes of a Christian. "Joy" is an essential of the "perfect work" of probation. 'If God's teaching by patience have had a perfect work in you, you are perfect' (Alford).

Entire, х holokleeroi (G3648)] - with all its parts complete, wanting no integral part: 1 Thessalonians 5:23 "your whole (literally, 'entire') spirit and soul and body:" as "perfect" implies wither a blemish in its parts.

James 1:4

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