 | John Brown - 1856 - 360 sider
...evil-doers, cease from anger and forsake wrath ; fret not thyself in any wise to do evil ;" and to both by the Apostle James — " Let patience have its perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing." Job exemplified the one when he said, " Shall we receive good from the hand of the... | |
 | John Wesley - 1856 - 584 sider
...fully ho the work hith wrought, That caused thy needless fear." SERMON LXXXVIII. — On Patience. " Let patience have its perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting notlimjr," James i, 4. 1. " MY brethren," says the apostle in the preceding verse, " count... | |
 | Felix Friendly (pseud.) - 1859 - 238 sider
...patient and long-suffering ; he delights in those who are in some measure like himself. His advice is, " Let patience have its perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, lacking nothing." (Jas. i, 2 — 5.) 6. When we regard our fellow Christians with more charity. We are sometimes, like... | |
 | John Atkinson - 1860 - 452 sider
...through him of an endless and glorions life. " A short time before he died he quoted the words of St. James, ' Let patience have its perfect work, that...ye may be perfect and entire, lacking nothing,' and commented upon them with much apparent pleasure, and with great clearness of expression, exhibiting,... | |
 | John Owen - 1862 - 676 sider
...ye fall into divers temptations; knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have its perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing." These temptations are trials upon afflictions, troubles, persecutions, and the like;... | |
 | Josiah Edward Golding - 1860 - 440 sider
...prayer, and the value of the grace of " patience." In this view of its importance, the Apostle says, " Let patience have its perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing;" (James i. 4). Perhaps, too, a thoughtful use of this petition may bring to our mind,... | |
 | Joseph Addison Alexander - 1860 - 438 sider
...recruiting of our spiritual strength, the Scripture points it out as the highway to perfection — " only let patience have its perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing " — not only perfect and entire in patience, but in all that spiritual patience tends... | |
 | L. N. R., Ellen Henrietta Ranyard - 1861 - 368 sider
...to which she answered, with a smile, (that all who once saw it longed to see again,) " No ; rather let patience have its perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing." At one period of her illness her friends received the dire information, that, if... | |
 | Isaac Penington - 1863 - 592 sider
...state of pure life in the heart ! And what if I should add, Oh perfect state! The apostle James saith, "Let patience have its perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing," or in nothing. James i. 4. When Paul had so learned Christ that abundance could not... | |
 | William Kelly - 1870 - 608 sider
...itself to His will. " Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience" (or endurance). "But let patience have its perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing." And how is this then to be effected ? Here is brought in another essential point... | |
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Count it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into manifold temptations; knowing that the proving of your faith worketh patience. And let patience have its perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing. 
