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.

Why have all been reckoned under sin?
What assurance has the believer of his union with God?
For what is all Scripture profitable?
What did Christ's words at Jacob's well lead the woman of Samaria to ask?
To whom do the things which have been revealed belong ?
What is to endure throughout all generations?
Have we reached the time when there is \"distress of nations, with perplexity\"?

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