James 2:17 - The Scriptures 2009

So also belief, if it does not have works, is in itself dead.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

So also faith, if it does not have works (deeds and actions of obedience to back it up), by itself is destitute of power (inoperative, dead).

American Standard Version (1901)

Even so faith, if it have not works, is dead in itself.

Common English Bible

In the same way, faith is dead when it doesn’t result in faithful activity.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Thus even faith, if it does not have works, is dead, in and of itself.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

So faith also, if it have not works, is dead in itself.

James 2:17 Cross References

1 Corinthians 13:13

And now belief, expectation, and love remain - these three. But the greatest of these is love.

1 Corinthians 13:3

And if I give out all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but do not have love, I am not profited at all.

Galatians 5:6

For in Messiah יהושע neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any strength, but belief working through love.

1 Thessalonians 1:3

remembering without ceasing your work of the belief, and the labour of love, and the endurance of the expectation in our Master יהושע Messiah in the presence of our Elohim and Father,

1 Timothy 1:5

Now the goal of this command is love from a clean heart, from a good conscience and a sincere belief,

James 2:14

My brothers, what use is it for anyone to say he has belief but does not have works? This belief is unable to save him.

James 2:26

For as the body without the spirit is dead, so also the belief is dead without the works.