“But let patience haue her perfect worke, that ye may be perfect, and entier, wanting nothing.”
1611 King James Version (KJV)
But let patience have [her] perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
- King James Version
And let endurance have {its} perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
And let patience have `its' perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing.
- American Standard Version (1901)
But let this power have its full effect, so that you may be made complete, needing nothing.
- Basic English Bible
But let endurance have [its] perfect work, that ye may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
- Darby Bible
But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
- Webster's Bible
Only let endurance have perfect results so that you may become perfect and complete, deficient in nothing.
- Weymouth Bible
Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
- World English Bible
and pacience hath a perfit werk, that ye be perfit and hole, and faile in no thing.
- Wycliffe Bible
and let the endurance have a perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire -- in nothing lacking;
- Youngs Literal Bible
Wesley's Notes for James 1:4
1:4 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 requires in you.
People's Bible Notes for James 1:4
Jas 1:4 Let patience. Let endurance not be merely passive, but have [her] perfect work; work out its complete results, that nothing may be wanting in your lives.