Why are we exhorted to patience?

Answer

"But let patience have her perfect work, that you may be perfect and entire, wanting [lacking] nothing
James 1: 4.

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What did Constantine's law require?
Notwithstanding the lamb like appearance of this power, what is it ultimately to do?
With what are we to comfort one another?
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How fully has God promised to supply our needs?
What determines whether one is a child of Abraham?

Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle