James 2:17 - English Majority Text Version 2009

¹⁷ Thus also that faith, if it does not have works, is dead, [being] by itself.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ 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)

¹⁷ Even so faith, if it have not works, is dead in itself.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ In the same way, faith is dead when it doesn’t result in faithful activity.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ Thus even faith, if it does not have works, is dead, in and of itself.

James 2:17 Cross References

1 Corinthians 13:13

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

1 Corinthians 13:3

And though I give away all my possessions to feed [the poor], and though I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.

Galatians 5:6

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything, but faith working through love.

1 Thessalonians 1:3

constantly remembering your work of faith, labor of love, and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the presence of our God and Father,

1 Timothy 1:5

Now the goal of the commandment is love out of a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from sincere faith,

James 2:14

What does it profit, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Is that [kind of] faith able to save him?

James 2:26

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