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James 1:4 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. "

James 1:4

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2 Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,

3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

4 Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

5 But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.

6 But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.

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James 1:1

"James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings."

James 1:2

"Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,"

James 1:3

"knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance."

James 1:5

"But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him."

James 1:6

"But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed."

James 1:7

"For that man shouldn’t think that he will receive anything from the Lord."

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