James 2:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Do you want to be shown, you senseless person, that faith apart from works is worthless?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Are you willing to be shown [proof], you foolish (unproductive, spiritually deficient) fellow, that faith apart from [good] works is inactive and ineffective and worthless?

American Standard Version (1901)

But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith apart from works is barren?

Common English Bible

Are you so slow? Do you need to be shown that faith without actions has no value at all?

Catholic Public Domain Version

So then, are you willing to understand, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?

James 2:20 Cross References

Proverbs 12:11

Those who till their land will have plenty of food, but those who follow worthless pursuits have no sense.

Jeremiah 2:5

Thus says the Lord: What wrong did your ancestors find in me that they went far from me and went after worthless things and became worthless themselves?

Romans 1:21

for though they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their senseless hearts were darkened.

Romans 3:28

For we hold that a person is justified by faith apart from works prescribed by the law.

Romans 9:20

But who indeed are you, a human, to argue with God? Will what is molded say to the one who molds it, “Why have you made me like this?”

Galatians 5:6

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything; the only thing that counts is faith working through love.

Galatians 6:3

For if those who are nothing think they are something, they deceive themselves.

Colossians 2:8

Watch out that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental principles of the world, and not according to Christ.

1 Timothy 1:6

Some people have deviated from these and turned to meaningless talk,

Titus 1:10

There are also many rebellious people, idle talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision;

James 1:26

If any think they are religious and do not bridle their tongues but deceive their hearts, their religion is worthless.

James 2:17

So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead.

James 2:26

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