[SoothingDave]

Keep reading the next verse. What does "throughly funished" mean. If your house is throughly funished, do you need anything else in it to live?

Right, and if steadfastness will make us perfect, then what else do we need?

You truly can't see the parallel?

Again, something is called, in Scripture, "useful" or "profitable," and you think that means that it is "all we need."

Or to use your analogy, without a comfy couch, your house is not "thoroughly furnished." Does that mean that we only need a couch to "thoroughly furnish" a house?

SD

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

Again, something is called, in Scripture, "useful" or "profitable," and you think that means that it is "all we need.

No, I say it is all we need because of the "throughly furnished" part.

In the James verse, we PROVE we are throughly funished by our handling of the trying of our faith. Becky