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James 1:4
But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
Verse James 1:4. _LET PATIENCE HAVE_ HER _PERFECT WORK_] That is, Continue faithful, and your patience will be _crowned_ with its full reward; for in this sense is εργον, which we translate _work_, t...
BUT LET PATIENCE HAVE HER PERFECT WORK - Let it be fairly developed; let it produce its appropriate effects without being hindered. Let it not be obstructed in its fair influence on the soul by murmur...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. TRIALS AND THE EXERCISE OF FAITH CHAPTER 1 _ 1. Trials and the power of faith (James 1:1)_ 2. The resources of faith (James 1:5) 3. The realization of faith (James 1:9...
The paragraph, like its successors, has no special link with its context: it is the writer's habit to throw out a series of aphoristic comments on topics, with as much connexion as there is between th...
My brothers, reckon it all joy whenever you become involved in all kinds of testings, for you are well aware that the testing of your faith produces unswerving constancy. And let constancy go on to wo...
GREETINGS (James 1:1) _ 1:1 James, the slave of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, sends greetings to the twelve tribes who are scattered throughout the world._ At the very beginning of his letter Ja...
PERFECT. App-125. THAT. in order that. Greek. _hina._ ENTIRE. Greek. _holokleros._ Only here and 1 Thessalonians 5:23. WANTING. lacking. Greek. _leipo._ See James 2:15. NOTHING. in (Greek. _en)_ n...
Trials and their Purpose 1. _a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ_ The description which the writer gives of himself throws no light on his identity. The term "servant," better SLAVE, as one...
_But let patience have her perfect work_ Better, AND LET ENDURANCE HAVE A PERFECT WORK, there being sequence of thought but not contrast. The word for "perfect" expresses the perfection of that which...
4. ἜΡΓΟΝ ΤΈΛΕΙΟΝ, A PERFECT RESULT, that result which is the τέλος of ὑπομονή, its final cause; _opus consummatum_ O.L., _o. perfectum_ 5. The character that repels and quenches evil results in perfec...
2–18. (_a_) TEMPTATION FROM WITHOUT, 2–4; (1) WISDOM, PRAYER, STEDFASTNESS, THE DIVINE HELPS IN TEMPTATION, 5–8; (2) A SPECIAL FORM OF TEMPTATION—OPPRESSION BY THE RICH—THE OLD TESTAMENT PROBLEM OF T...
_SCRIPTURAL VIEW OF TRIALS -- JAMES 1:2-17:_ Christians must be "positive" when trials come their way. The man who properly reacts to trials must not react as a pessimist. "My brethren, count it all j...
ΤΈΛΕΙΟΝ (G5046) совершенство. Здесь Иаков развивает ветхозаветную идею совершенства как правильных отношений с Богом, которые проявляются в беззаветной преданности и безупречной жизни (Adamson; Martin...
DISCOURSE: 2352 THE DUTY OF PATIENCE James 1:2. _My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience hav...
BUT LET PATIENCE HAVE HER PERFECT WORK— "that it may rise to its highest improvements during this little space of time, in which alone you will have the opportunity of preparing for glory and promotin...
_SERMON OUTLINES_ IS TEMPTATION A JOY? James 1:2-4 Proposition: When should a Christian not have joy in temptation, and how could a Christian find joy in temptation? I. Temptation is no joy. A....
CHAPTER II _THE WAGES OF THE WISE_ James 1:2-15 TRIALS PRODUCE STEADFASTNESS _Text 1:2-4_ 2. Count it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into manifold temptations: 3. Knowing that the proving...
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 effe...
VERSE 4. LET PATIENCE HAVE HER PERFECT WORK. If patience builds up, strengthens and perfects Christian character so that its subject shall be perfect and entire, or complete, wanting nothing, or, as t...
1 James is never called an apostle and does not write this epistle in that character. Rather, he puts himself in the place of a slave. Hence the epistle is not concerned with authoritative teaching so...
THE POWER OF FAITH UNDER TEMPTATION 1. Servant] better, 'slave.' The word does not suggest any degradation, but only absolute surrender to the Master. St. James's humility prevents the mention of the...
PERFECT AND ENTIRE] better, 'full grown' (Ephesians 4:13), and 'complete' (1 Thessalonians 5:23)....
WHAT *FAITH SHOULD DO JAMES _IAN MACKERVOY_ The word list at the end explains words with a *star by them. INTRODUCTION 1 THE WRITER James is the writer of the letter. But he does not tell us...
LET PATIENCE HAVE HER PERFECT WORK. — Do not think the grace will come to its full beauty in an hour. Emotion and sentiment may have their place in the beginning of a Christian career, but the end the...
(2-27) Immediately after the salutation, and with more or less a play upon the word which we translate “greeting” (“rejoice,” James 1:1; “count it all joy,” James 1:2) there follow appeals on behalf o...
CHAPTER 5 THE RELATION OF THIS EPISTLE TO THE WRITINGS OF ST. PAUL AND OF ST. PETER - THE DATE OF THE EPISTLE - THE DOCTRINE OF JOY IN TEMPTATION. James 1:2 THIS passage at once raises the question...
ἡ δὲ ὑπομονὴ ἔργον τέλειον ἐχέτω : “But let endurance have its perfect result”; the possibility of losing heart is contemplated, which would result in something being lacking; the words recall what is...
STEADFAST FAITH James 1:1 This Epistle is marked by the austere features of the Jerusalem church, which refused to be affected by that wider contact with the Gentile world, by which the life and teac...
James wrote to Christians in the midst of temptation and trial. He showed first that the issue of testing is that they "may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing." It is therefore to be looked upo...
REASONS FOR HAVING JOY IN TRIALS James uses the word for "greetings" which means "joy to you." He then goes on to tell his readers they ought to be happy even in the presence of many and various kinds...
(4) But let patience have [her] perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. (4) The third argument, proposed in manner of an exhortation, that true and lasting patience may be d...
_The trying of your faith worketh patience. St. Paul seems to assert the reverse: (Romans v. 3.) when he says, patience worketh a trial. They are easily reconciled. Here St. James teacheth us, that pa...
My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; (3) Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. (4) But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect...
To the reader who enters on the consideration of the epistle of James from the epistles of Paul, the change is great and sudden, and by no means least of all from the epistle to the Hebrews, which, in...
4_But let patience have her perfect work. _As boldness and courage often appear in us and soon fail, he therefore requires perseverance. “Real patience,” he says, “is that which endures to the end.” F...
The Epistle of James is not addressed to the assembly, and does not take the ground of apostolic authority over the persons to whom it is sent. It is a practical exhortation which still recognises the...
BUT LET PATIENCE HAVE HER PERFECT WORK,.... Or effect; or be brought unto perfection; which may denote both the sincerity and continuance of it unto the end, with constancy: patience may be said to be...
But let patience have _her_ perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. Ver. 4. _Let patience have her perfect work_] Patience must not be an inch shorter than the affliction. I...
_Count it all joy_ That is, matter of the greatest joy; _when ye fall into divers temptations_ Πειρασμοις, _trials;_ for though rendered _temptations_, it does not signify here what is commonly meant...
HAVE HER PERFECT WORK; produce its full and appropriate effects, through your enduring to the end all the trials which God appoints to you. Matthew 24:13. PERFECT AND ENTIRE; complete in all parts of...
This chapter has a very close relationship to the Old Testament, for all is seen in connection with God; and Christ is not yet spoken of as the center and essence of all blessing and of all direction...
How does patience make us perfect? How does patience work? Does “perfect” mean without flaw or error? Can we say that we lack nothing? Does “nothing” include material things? Is this verse talking abo...
'And let endurance have its perfect result, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.' 'let endurance' -The language of choice, 'present active imperative, let it keep on having' (Robe...
1-11 Christianity teaches men to be joyful under troubles: such exercises are sent from God's love; and trials in the way of duty will brighten our graces now, and our crown at last. Let us take care...
BUT LET PATIENCE HAVE HER PERFECT WORK; i.e. effect: q.d. Let it have its full efficacy in you, both in making you absolutely subject to God's will, and constant to the end under all your sufferings....
James 1:4 But G1161 let G2192 patience G5281 have G2192 (G5720) perfect G5046 work G2041 that G2443 be...
‘And let patient endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing.' And the final result of enduring these testings and trials with patient endurance, and of rej...
TESTING PRODUCES PATIENT ENDURANCE WHICH FINALLY RESULTS IN BEING MADE PERFECT (JAMES 1:2). In these words that follow James sums up the essence of the Christian life. He speaks of the joy of a vibran...
THOSE WHO FACE TRIAL FOR THE SAKE OF THEIR FAITH IN GOD AND THE LORD JESUS CHRIST WILL BE BLESSED (JAMES 1:2). The letter commences by outlining the basic themes that will be dealt with later (see Ana...
James 1:4. BUT LET PATIENCE, or endurance, HAVE HER PERFECT not only in the sense of enduring to the end, but of completeness WORK. Patience is not merely a passive but an active virtue; there is a w...
LET HAVE (εχετω). Present active imperative of εχω, let it keep on having.PERFECT (τελειον). See Romans 5:3 for a like chain of blessings. Carry on the work to the end or completion (from τελος,...
PERFECT Mature and complete. (_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 5:48). _...
James 1:4 The Perfect Work of Patience. I. We can all attain to a certain amount of proficiency at most things we attempt; but there are few who have patience to go on to perfection. In the lives of...
James 1:1. _James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting._ James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ. He was an apostle,...
James 1:1. _James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting._ «Where are the lost ten tribes?» asks somebody. They never were lost. Tha...
James 1:1. _James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting._ The apostle James evidently believed in no lost ten tribes, as some nowad...
James 1:1. _James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting._ According to the teaching of some in the present day, the apostle should...
CONTENTS: Testing of faith. Solicitation to evil not of God. Obedience as a test of true faith. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, James. CONCLUSION: Such as have a true title in Jesus Christ through faith may...
James 1:1. _James, a servant of God, and of the Lord Jesus Christ._ He does not style himself an _apostle,_ because he would not assume any superiority; yet the majesty of his address is the language...
BE SURE. Don't be _a fatalist,_ who thinks he is a passive plaything of _fate,_ but accept these things as the discipline of a loving Father. PERFECT AND COMPLETE. _"For endurance is a strong power, a...
_Count it all Joy when ye fall Into divers temptations_ THE CHRISTIAN’S DUTY IN TIMES OF TRIAL This positive injunction of the Christian ethics may seem too difficult, if not impossible to be obeyed...
_Let patience have her perfect work_ THE PERFECT WORK OF PATIENCE We can all attain to a certain amount of proficiency at most things we attempt; but there are few who have patience to go on to perf...
JAMES—NOTE ON JAMES 1:4 Believers are growing in holiness but are not yet perfected in it. This perfection will come only when Jesus returns. ⇐...
JAMES 1:2 The Testing of Faith. Trials are part of God’s “good gifts” (v. James 1:17) to his people, to strengthen them in their faith....
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ James 1:2. TEMPTATIONS.—As so often in the New Testament, trials which take the form of suffering, and serve the purposes of Divine discipline. James 1:3. TRYING.—Test...
EXPOSITION JAMES 1:1 SALUTATION. JAMES, A SERVANT OF GOD AND OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. (On the person who thus describes himself, see the Introduction) It is noteworthy that he keeps entirely out of...
Let's turn to James chapter one. James introduces himself as the bondslave of God and of Jesus Christ. It's a title that most of the apostles delighted to take. Renouncing any claim for any rights, tu...
1 Corinthians 2:6; 1 John 4:17; 1 John 4:18; 1 Peter 5:10; 2 Peter 1:9
Perfect work [ε ρ γ ο ν τ ε λ ε ι ο ν]. "This is followed by a perfect man. The man himself is characterized from his condition and work" (Bengel). Work [ε ρ γ ο ν] is the word with which katergazetai...
Let patience have its perfect work — Give it full scope, under whatever trials befal you. That ye may be perfect and entire — Adorned with every Christian grace. And wanting nothing — Which God requir...
That is, "Let your patience and perseverance under sufferings resolutely continue and hold out to the end;" this the apostle urges, because some persons bore out the first brunt and onset of persecuti...