James 1:4 But let patience have her perfect work, that you may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. The three characteristics of the man of God form a climax: ye are to be spiritually perfect, having all your graces and virtues in their entirety, and in no one thing are ye to be deficient; the ideal statue is not to present to the view one grace in abundant development, and another of stinted proportions, symmetry not deformity is the model, each part is well balanced with the rest, and all in graceful harmony with the whole; the law of physical is also the law of moral beauty. As the temptations spoken of are various, of divers sorts and kinds, assaulting and testing the various constituents of the whole character, the effect of a successful endurance of them severally would be the perfection of each and all of the members of the inner man, the completion of the godly character, the production of a man after God's own heart. (F. T. Bassett, M. A.) Parallel Verses KJV: But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.WEB: Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. |
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