James 2:20 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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 have plenty of bread: But he that followeth after vain persons is void of understanding.

Jeremiah 2:5

thus saith the LORD, What unrighteousness 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, knowing God, they glorified him not as God, neither gave thanks; but became vain in their reasonings, and their senseless heart was darkened.

Romans 3:28

We reckon therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works 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 didst thou make me thus?

Galatians 5:6

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

Galatians 6:3

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

Colossians 2:8

Take heed lest there shall be any one that maketh spoil of you through his 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 things some having swerved have turned aside unto vain talking;

Titus 1:10

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

James 1:26

If any man thinketh himself to be religious, while he bridleth not his tongue but deceiveth his heart, this man's religion is vain.

James 2:17

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

James 2:26

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