James 2:17 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

So faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

1 Corinthians 13:3

If I give away all I have, and if I deliver my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

Galatians 5:6

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision is of any avail, but faith working through love.

1 Thessalonians 1:3

remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Timothy 1:5

whereas the aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith.

James 2:14

What does it profit, my brethren, if a man says he has faith but has not works? Can his faith save him?

James 2:26

For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so faith apart from works is dead.