JAMES 1:4

Victor M. Eskew

 

1.    Patience

A.   Strong (5281):  cheerful (or hopeful) endurance, constancy

B.    Thayer:  steadfastness, constancy, endurance, in the NT the characteristic of a man who is not swerved from his deliberate purpose and his loyalty to faith and piety by even the greatest trials and sufferings…a patient enduring, sustaining, perseverance

C.    Vine:  Literally, an abiding under…may be passive, i.e., = endurance

 

2.    Perfect

A.    Strong (5046):  complete (in various applications of labor, growth, mental and moral   characteristics, etc.), completeness

B.     Thayer:  brought to an end, finished, wanting nothing necessary to complete

C.    Vine:  a fulfillment, completion, perfection, an end accomplished as an effect of a process

 

3.    Work

A.   Strong (2041):  toil (as an effort or occupation); by implication an act

B.    Thayer:  any product whatever, anything accomplished by hand, art, industry, or mind

C.    Vine:

1.      Work, employment, task…here the work of patience

2.     The development of every grace into maturity

 

     4.   Perfect

A.    Strong (5046):  complete (in various applications of labor, growth, mental and moral   characteristics, etc, completeness

B.     Thayer:  brought to an end, finished, wanting nothing necessary to complete

C.    Vine:  a fulfillment, completion, perfection, an end accomplished as an effect of a process

 

      5.  Entire

A.  Strong (3648):  complete in every part, that is, perfectly sound

B.  Thayer: complete in all its parts, in no part wanting or unsound, complete, entire,  

      whole

C.  Vine:

                  1.  Complete, sound in every part

                  2.  Every grace present in Christ should be manifested in the believer

 

       6.  Wanting

          A.  Strong (3007):  to leave, to fail or be absent…be destitute (wanting), lack

            B.  Thayer:  to be destitute of, to lack, to be wanting

            C.  Vine:  to be wanting

 

       7.  Nothing

            A.  Strong (3367):  not even one (thing)

            B.  Thayer:  nothing

            C.  Vine:  in nothing, not anything