James 2:20 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Do you want to be shown, you shallow man, that faith apart from works is barren?

More versions

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

He who tills his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits has no sense.

Jeremiah 2:5

Thus says the Lord: “What wrong did your fathers find in me that they went far from me, and went after worthlessness, and became worthless?

Romans 1:21

for although 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 minds were darkened.

Romans 3:28

For we hold that a man is justified by faith apart from works of law.

Romans 9:20

But who are you, a man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, “Why have you made me thus?”

Galatians 5:6

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

Galatians 6:3

For if any one thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

Colossians 2:8

See to it that no one makes a prey of you by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the universe, and not according to Christ.

1 Timothy 1:6

Certain persons by swerving from these have wandered away into vain discussion,

Titus 1:10

For there are many insubordinate men, empty talkers and deceivers, especially the circumcision party;

James 1:26

If any one thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this man's religion is vain.

James 2:17

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

James 2:26

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