James 2:17 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

James 2:26

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

James 2:14

What doth it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but have not works? can that faith save him?

1 Timothy 1:5

But the end of the charge is love out of a pure heart and a good conscience and faith unfeigned:

1 Corinthians 13:13

But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

1 Thessalonians 1:3

remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labour of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;

1 Corinthians 13:3

And if I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing.

Galatians 5:6

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