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 is the first and primary evidence of our acceptance with God?
Why did the apostle say this duty was so imperative?
Does the Bible recognize what may be called \"present truth\"?
In what words does Christ recognize marriage as of God?
What is said of his mother and his grandmother?
What was to he accomplished at the close of the seventy weeks?
What charge was made against Stephen concerning his attitude toward the ceremonial law?

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