James 1:4
Modern Translations
New International Version
Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.

New Living Translation
So let it grow, for when your endurance is fully developed, you will be perfect and complete, needing nothing.

English Standard Version
And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

Berean Study Bible
Allow perseverance to finish its work, so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.

New American Standard Bible
And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

NASB 1995
And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

NASB 1977
And let endurance have its perfect result, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

Amplified Bible
And let endurance have its perfect result and do a thorough work, so that you may be perfect and completely developed [in your faith], lacking in nothing.

Christian Standard Bible
And let endurance have its full effect, so that you may be mature and complete, lacking nothing.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
But endurance must do its complete work, so that you may be mature and complete, lacking nothing.

Contemporary English Version
But you must learn to endure everything, so you will be completely mature and not lacking in anything.

Good News Translation
Make sure that your endurance carries you all the way without failing, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Endure until your testing is over. Then you will be mature and complete, and you won't need anything.

International Standard Version
But you must let endurance have its full effect, so that you may be mature and complete, lacking nothing.

NET Bible
And let endurance have its perfect effect, so that you will be perfect and complete, not deficient in anything.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.

New King James Version
But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.

King James 2000 Bible
But let patience have her perfect work, that you may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing.

New Heart English Bible
Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

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

American King James Version
But let patience have her perfect work, that you may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.

American Standard Version
And let patience have its perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing.

A Faithful Version
But let endurance have its perfect work, so that you may be perfect and complete, not lacking in anything.

Darby Bible Translation
But let endurance have [its] perfect work, that ye may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

English Revised Version
And let patience have its perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing.

Webster's Bible Translation
But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
And let patience haue her perfect worke, that ye may be perfect & entier, lacking nothing.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
And let patience haue her perfect worke, that ye may be perfect & sounde, lackyng nothyng.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
and let pacience haue her parfect worke, yt ye maye be parfecte aud sounde, lakinge nothinge.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
and let pacience have her parfect worke that ye maye be parfecte and sounde lackinge nothinge.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
and let the endurance have a perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

Berean Literal Bible
And let endurance have its perfect work, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

Young's Literal Translation
and let the endurance have a perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire -- in nothing lacking;

Smith's Literal Translation
And let patience have a perfect work, that ye be perfect and entire, being left behind in nothing.

Literal Emphasis Translation
And let endurance have its perfect work, so that you might be perfect and whole, lacking in nothing.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
And patience hath a perfect work; that you may be perfect and entire, failing in nothing.

Catholic Public Domain Version
and patience brings a work to perfection, so that you may be perfect and whole, deficient in nothing.

Translations from Aramaic
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
But patience will have a complete work for itself that you would be perfected and complete, and that you would be lacking nothing.

Lamsa Bible
And let patience be a perfect work, that you may be perfect and entire, lacking nothing.

NT Translations
Anderson New Testament
But let patience have its work perfected, that you may be perfect and faultless, wanting in nothing.

Godbey New Testament
But let endurance have its perfect work, in order that you may be perfect and whole in every part, lacking in nothing.

Haweis New Testament
But let patience have its work perfected, that ye may be perfect and complete, deficient in nothing.

Mace New Testament
but constancy should be brought to its perfection, that you may be entirely accomplished, without any defect.

Weymouth New Testament
Only let endurance have perfect results so that you may become perfect and complete, deficient in nothing.

Worrell New Testament
And let patience have a perfect work; that ye may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing.

Worsley New Testament
but let patience have it's perfect work, that ye may be entirely perfect, failing in nothing.
















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