James 2:20 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

²⁰ But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ 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)

²⁰ But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith apart from works is barren?

Common English Bible

²⁰ Are you so slow? Do you need to be shown that faith without actions has no value at all?

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ So then, are you willing to understand, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁰ But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?

James 2:20 Cross References

Proverbs 12:11

He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding.

Jeremiah 2:5

thus saith the Lord, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?

Romans 1:21

because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

Romans 3:28

Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.

Romans 9:20

Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?

Galatians 5:6

For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.

Galatians 6:3

For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.

Colossians 2:8

Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

1 Timothy 1:6

from which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling;

Titus 1:10

For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision:

James 1:26

If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.

James 2:17

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

James 2:26

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