James 1:4

James 1:4
Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

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Genesis 2:7
Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Mark 9:50
Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, with what will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”

Romans 6:22
But now, being made free from sin and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification and the result of eternal life.

Romans 7:4
Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might produce fruit to God.

Galatians 5:22
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

Galatians 5:23
gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

Galatians 5:24
Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

Galatians 5:25
If we live by the Spirit, let’s also walk by the Spirit.

Galatians 6:4
But let each man examine his own work, and then he will have reason to boast in himself, and not in someone else.

Philippians 1:11
being filled with the fruits of righteousness which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

Colossians 1:6
which has come to you, even as it is in all the world and is bearing fruit and growing, as it does in you also, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth,

Colossians 1:10
that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God,

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Genesis 29:28
Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave him Rachel his daughter as wife.

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Leviticus 11:44
For I am Yahweh your God. Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any kind of creeping thing that moves on the earth.

Leviticus 20:26
You shall be holy to me, for I, Yahweh, am holy, and have set you apart from the peoples, that you should be mine.

1 Peter 1:16
because it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”

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1 Samuel 28:15
Samuel said to Saul, “Why have you disturbed me, to bring me up?” Saul answered, “I am very distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God has departed from me, and answers me no more, by prophets, or by dreams. Therefore I have called you, that you may make known to me what I shall do.”

1 Samuel 30:6
David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him, because the souls of all the people were grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters; but David strengthened himself in Yahweh his God.

2 Samuel 16:11
David said to Abishai and to all his servants, “Behold, my son, who came out of my bowels, seeks my life. How much more this Benjamite, now? Leave him alone, and let him curse; for Yahweh has invited him.

Psalms 56:2
My enemies want to swallow me up all day long, for they are many who fight proudly against me.

Psalms 56:3
When I am afraid, I will put my trust in you.

Proverbs 14:26
In the fear of Yahweh is a secure fortress, and he will be a refuge for his children.

Proverbs 18:10
Yahweh’s name is a strong tower: the righteous run to him, and are safe.

Romans 8:35
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

Romans 8:36
Even as it is written, “For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”

Romans 8:37
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

2 Corinthians 12:9
He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.

2 Corinthians 12:10
Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, and in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.

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Genesis 22:1
After these things, God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!” He said, “Here I am.”

Genesis 22:2
He said, “Now take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go into the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will tell you of.”

1 Kings 17:17
After these things, the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became sick; and his sickness was so severe that there was no breath left in him.

2 Kings 4:18
When the child was grown, one day he went out to his father to the reapers.

2 Kings 4:19
He said to his father, “My head! My head!” He said to his servant, “Carry him to his mother.”

2 Kings 4:20
When he had taken him and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees until noon, and then died.

John 11:3
The sisters therefore sent to him, saying, “Lord, behold, he for whom you have great affection is sick.”

John 11:4
But when Jesus heard it, he said, “This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, that God’s Son may be glorified by it.”

John 11:14
So Jesus said to them plainly then, “Lazarus is dead.

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2 Chronicles 32:31
However, concerning the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent to him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him to test him, that he might know all that was in his heart.

Job 2:3
Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause.”

Job 2:4
Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.

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Nehemiah 6:14
“Remember, my God, Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and also the prophetess Noadiah and the rest of the prophets that would have put me in fear.”

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Job 1:2
There were born to him seven sons and three daughters.

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Job 1:3
His possessions also were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east.

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Job 2:10
But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips.

Psalms 63:8
My soul stays close to you. Your right hand holds me up.

Colossians 1:11
strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy,

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Psalms 17:3
You have proved my heart. You have visited me in the night. You have tried me, and found nothing. I have resolved that my mouth shall not disobey.

Isaiah 48:10
Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver. I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.

Jeremiah 9:7
Therefore Yahweh of Armies says, “Behold, I will melt them and test them; for how should I deal with the daughter of my people?

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Psalms 34:1
I will bless Yahweh at all times. His praise will always be in my mouth.

Psalms 34:2
My soul shall boast in Yahweh. The humble shall hear of it and be glad.

Psalms 145:1
I will exalt you, my God, the King. I will praise your name forever and ever.

Psalms 145:2
Every day I will praise you. I will extol your name forever and ever.

Psalms 146:2
While I live, I will praise Yahweh. I will sing praises to my God as long as I exist.

Isaiah 24:15
Therefore glorify Yahweh in the east, even the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel, in the islands of the sea!

1 Thessalonians 5:16
Always rejoice.

1 Thessalonians 5:17
Pray without ceasing.

1 Thessalonians 5:18
In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.

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Psalms 66:11
You brought us into prison. You laid a burden on our backs.

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Psalms 66:12
You allowed men to ride over our heads. We went through fire and through water, but you brought us to the place of abundance.

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Job 5:17
“Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.

Psalms 94:12
Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah, and teach out of your law,

Psalms 119:75
Yahweh, I know that your judgments are righteous, that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.

Proverbs 3:11
My son, don’t despise Yahweh’s discipline, neither be weary of his correction;

Proverbs 3:12
for whom Yahweh loves, he corrects, even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.

Revelation 3:19
As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

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Proverbs 4:8
Esteem her, and she will exalt you. She will bring you to honor when you embrace her.

1 John 2:5
But God’s love has most certainly been perfected in whoever keeps his word. This is how we know that we are in him:

1 John 4:12
No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.

1 John 4:17
In this, love has been made perfect among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so we are in this world.

1 John 4:18
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

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Jonah 4:9
God said to Jonah, “Is it right for you to be angry about the vine?” He said, “I am right to be angry, even to death.”

Philippians 1:19
For I know that this will turn out to my salvation through your prayers and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

Philippians 1:20
according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.

Philippians 1:22
But if I live on in the flesh, this will bring fruit from my work; yet I don’t know what I will choose.

Philippians 1:23
But I am hard pressed between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.

Philippians 1:24
Yet to remain in the flesh is more needful for your sake.

Revelation 14:13
I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’ ” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors, for their works follow with them.”

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Psalms 37:7
Rest in Yahweh, and wait patiently for him. Don’t fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.

Psalms 40:1
I waited patiently for Yahweh. He turned to me, and heard my cry.

Daniel 11:35
Some of those who are wise will fall—to refine them, and to purify, and to make them white, even to the time of the end, because it is yet for the time appointed.

Habakkuk 2:3
For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it, because it will surely come. It won’t delay.

Zephaniah 3:20
At that time I will bring you in, and at that time I will gather you; for I will give you honor and praise among all the peoples of the earth when I restore your fortunes before your eyes, says Yahweh.

2 Thessalonians 3:5
May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love and into the perseverance of Christ.

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Ecclesiastes 7:3
Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the face the heart is made good.

Zechariah 12:10
I will pour on David’s house and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and of supplication. They will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for his firstborn.

2 Corinthians 7:10
For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world produces death.

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Matthew 5:41
Whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two.

Matthew 5:45
that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.

Matthew 5:46
For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same?

Matthew 5:47
If you only greet your friends, what more do you do than others? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same?

Romans 12:21
Don’t be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

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Job 17:9
Yet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.

Psalms 37:37
Mark the perfect man, and see the upright, for there is a future for the man of peace.

Proverbs 4:18
But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light that shines more and more until the perfect day.

Matthew 19:21
Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”

Luke 6:36
“Therefore be merciful, even as your Father is also merciful.

Luke 6:40
A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone when he is fully trained will be like his teacher.

Luke 12:21
So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”

1 Corinthians 13:10
but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.

Ephesians 4:12
for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ,

1 Peter 3:14
But even if you should suffer for righteousness’ sake, you are blessed. “Don’t fear what they fear, neither be troubled.”

1 Peter 3:15
But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. Always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear,

2 Peter 1:9
For he who lacks these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.

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Luke 13:1
Now there were some present at the same time who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.

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Luke 14:11
For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”

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Luke 22:28
“But you are those who have continued with me in my trials.

2 Corinthians 1:7
Our hope for you is steadfast, knowing that, since you are partakers of the sufferings, so you are also of the comfort.

Galatians 5:7
You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth?

Ephesians 3:13
Therefore I ask that you may not lose heart at my troubles for you, which are your glory.

Philippians 1:28
and in nothing frightened by the adversaries, which is for them a proof of destruction, but to you of salvation, and that from God.

2 Thessalonians 1:5
This is an obvious sign of the righteous judgment of God, to the end that you may be counted worthy of God’s Kingdom, for which you also suffer.

Revelation 14:12
Here is the perseverance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.”

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Luke 18:22
When Jesus heard these things, he said to him, “You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have and distribute it to the poor. Then you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.”

Romans 8:24
For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees?

Romans 15:1
Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

1 Corinthians 13:13
But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

Hebrews 6:11
We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end,

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Acts 14:22
strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into God’s Kingdom.

Acts 20:24
But these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.

Romans 8:18
For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.

1 Corinthians 11:19
For there also must be factions among you, that those who are approved may be revealed among you.

2 Corinthians 4:8
We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair;

2 Corinthians 4:16
Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward person is decaying, yet our inward person is renewed day by day.

Philippians 1:7
It is even right for me to think this way on behalf of all of you, because I have you in my heart, because both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the Good News, you all are partakers with me of grace.

1 Thessalonians 3:3
that no one would be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.

2 Thessalonians 1:7
and to give relief to you who are afflicted with us when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire,

2 Thessalonians 1:11
To this end we also pray always for you that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire of goodness and work of faith with power,

James 1:15
Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin. The sin, when it is full grown, produces death.

Revelation 13:10
If anyone is to go into captivity, he will go into captivity. If anyone is to be killed with the sword, he must be killed. Here is the endurance and the faith of the saints.

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Galatians 5:26
Let’s not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.

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Numbers 11:15
If you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have found favor in your sight; and don’t let me see my wretchedness.”

1 Kings 19:4
But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree. Then he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough. Now, O Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.”

Job 3:20
“Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,

Job 3:21
who long for death, but it doesn’t come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,

Job 3:22
who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?

Job 6:8
“Oh that I might have my request, that God would grant the thing that I long for,

Job 6:9
even that it would please God to crush me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

Job 6:10
Let it still be my consolation, yes, let me exult in pain that doesn’t spare, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

Job 7:15
so that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my bones.

Jonah 4:3
Therefore now, Yahweh, take, I beg you, my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”

Jonah 4:8
When the sun arose, God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah’s head, so that he was faint and requested for himself that he might die. He said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

Philippians 1:21
For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

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Luke 21:18
And not a hair of your head will perish.

Luke 22:29
I confer on you a kingdom, even as my Father conferred on me,

Luke 22:30
that you may eat and drink at my table in my Kingdom. You will sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.”

Romans 8:17
and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.

Galatians 2:20
I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself up for me.

Philippians 2:18
In the same way, you also should be glad and rejoice with me.

Colossians 3:3
For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

2 Timothy 2:12
If we endure, we will also reign with him. If we deny him, he also will deny us.

Hebrews 10:33
partly, being exposed to both reproaches and oppressions, and partly, becoming partakers with those who were treated so.

Hebrews 10:34
For you both had compassion on me in my chains and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens.

Hebrews 12:2
looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

1 Peter 4:17
For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God. If it begins first with us, what will happen to those who don’t obey the Good News of God?

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Matthew 12:37
For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”

James 1:8
He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

James 2:14
What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?

James 2:17
Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself.

James 2:18
Yes, a man will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without works, and I will show you my faith by my works.

James 2:20
But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?

James 2:26
For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.

James 3:1
Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment.

James 5:12
But above all things, my brothers, don’t swear— not by heaven, or by the earth, or by any other oath; but let your “yes” be “yes”, and your “no”, “no”, so that you don’t fall into hypocrisy.

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1 Peter 5:6
Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time,

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James 4:4
You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

1 John 2:15
Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.

1 John 2:16
For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.

1 John 2:17
The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.

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Matthew 5:16
Even so, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

Matthew 7:12
Therefore, whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

Matthew 19:20
The young man said to him, “All these things I have observed from my youth. What do I still lack?”

Mark 10:21
Jesus looking at him loved him, and said to him, “One thing you lack. Go, sell whatever you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me, taking up the cross.”

Romans 15:13
Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope in the power of the Holy Spirit.

1 Timothy 6:18
that they do good, that they be rich in good works, that they be ready to distribute, willing to share;

Hebrews 7:11
Now if perfection was through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people have received the law), what further need was there for another priest to arise after the order of Melchizedek, and not be called after the order of Aaron?

Hebrews 12:13
and make straight paths for your feet, so what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.

James 1:25
But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom and continues, not being a hearer who forgets but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.

1 John 3:3
Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

Revelation 2:9
“I know your works, oppression, and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

Revelation 2:19
“I know your works, your love, faith, service, patient endurance, and that your last works are more than the first.

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Revelation 13:12
He exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence. He makes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose fatal wound was healed.

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Revelation 13:14
He deceives my own people who dwell on the earth because of the signs he was granted to do in front of the beast, saying to those who dwell on the earth that they should make an image to the beast who had the sword wound and lived.

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