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Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
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ExplanationCommentary
Verse 3–4. The trying of your faith worketh patience. Saint Paul seems to assert the reverse: (verse 3) when he says, patience worketh a trial. They are easily reconciled. Here Saint James teacheth us, that patience is occasionally obtained, and strengthened by sufferings, the meaning of Saint Paul is, that patience worketh, sheweth itself, and is found perfect in the sight of God by trials. Witham.
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