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.

What was foretold of His treatment while on the cross?
Into whose name are believers to be baptized?
Following one of His parables, what did Christ say?
What testimony did the chief priests and Pharisees bear concerning Christ's work?
In what literal language is this persecution of the people of God further described?
When did David say he would be satisfied?
What striking figure is used to describe the destruction wrought under the second trumpet?

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