James 1:2-4

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - James 1:4

‘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 rejoicing in the privilege of suffering for Him, will be the sanctification (making holy, setting apart to God) and building up of their lives that will result in their coming to maturity of faith and love. It will accomplish a ‘perfect work’. They will become ‘perfect even as their Father in Heaven... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - James 1:2-8

James 1:2-Ruth : . 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 the essays of Bacon or successive cantos of Tennyson’ s In Memoriam. It is the manner of “ Wisdom” literature ( cf. especially Ecclus.). The paradox with which the epistle opens is an expansion of the Beatitudes ( Luke 6:20-Isaiah :). The tense of the verb, “ when you have... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - James 1:2

My brethren; both as being of the same nation and the same religion; so he calls them, that the kindness of his compellation might sweeten his exhortations. Count it; esteem it so by a spiritual judgment, though the flesh judge otherwise. All joy; matter of the chiefest joy, viz. spiritual. So all is taken, 1 Timothy 1:15. When ye fall into; when ye are so beset and circumvented by them, that there is no escaping them, but they come upon you, though by the directeth of God’s providence, yet not... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - James 1:3

Knowing this; considering. That the trying of your faith; the reason why he called afflictions temptations, as well as why believers should count it all joy to fall into them, viz. because they are trials of their faith, and such trials as tend to approbation, as the word (different from that in the former verse) imports. Of your faith; both of the truth of the grace itself, and of your constancy in the profession of it. Worketh patience; not of itself, but as a means in the hand of God, made... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - James 1:4

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. That ye may be perfect and entire; that you may grow perfect in this grace, as well as in others, and have the image of Christ (to whom ye are to be conformed) completed in you. Wanting nothing; either not failing, not fainting in trials, or not defective in any thing which is a needful part of... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - James 1:2-4

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTESJames 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.—Testing, proving. “The proof to which your faith is put works out endurance.” Patience.—ὑπομονήν; the perseverance which does not falter under suffering. Christian patience is much more than passive submission.James 1:4. Entire.—Lacking no part essential to full and healthy spiritual life. The figure is... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - James 1:4

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 almost every one there has been at some time an attempt at welldoing. It may have been as the morning cloud, and as the dew that goeth early away, but there was at least a desire to do right, and good resolutions were formed. What was wanted? Staying power. "The gift of continuance," that is what so... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - James 1:2-4

DISCOURSE: 2352THE DUTY OF PATIENCEJames 1:2-4. 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 have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.WE at this time are scarcely able to form a conception of the state of the Church in the apostolic age. Christianity amongst us is attended with none of the evils to which the primitive professors of it were exposed. But to what... read more

C.I. Scofield

Scofield's Reference Notes - James 1:4

perfect mature and complete. (See Scofield " :-") . read more

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible - James 1:2-4

All Joy in All Trials A Sermon (No. 1704) Delivered on Lord's Day Morning, February 4th, 1883, by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington "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 have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing."-- James 1:2-4 James calls the converted among the twelve tribes his brethren. Christianity has a great uniting power:... read more

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