4. Let endurance have a perfect work (taken out of the previous " worketh patience" or endurance), that is, have its full effect, by showing the most perfect degree of endurance, namely, "joy in bearing the cross" [MENOCHIUS], and enduring to the end ( Matthew 10:22 ) [CALVIN]. ye may be perfect —fully developed in all the attributes of a Christian character. For this there is required "joy" [BENGEL], as part of the "perfect work" of probation. The work of God in a man is the man. If God's teachings by patience have had a perfect work in you, you are perfect [ALFORD]. entire —that which has all its parts complete, wanting no integral part; Matthew 10:22- : , "your whole (literally, 'entire') spirit, soul, and body"; as "perfect" implies without a blemish in its parts. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-5" class="com-number"
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