James 2:20 - The Scriptures 1998

²⁰ But do you wish to know, O foolish man, that the belief without the 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?

James 2:20 Cross References

Proverbs 12:11

He who tills his land is satisfied with bread, But he who pursues vanities is lacking heart.

Jeremiah 2:5

Thus said יהוה, “What unrighteousness have your fathers found in Me, that they have gone far from Me, and went after worthlessness, and became worthless?

Romans 1:21

because, although they knew Elohim, they did not esteem Him as Elohim, nor gave thanks, but became vain in their reasonings, and their undiscerning heart was darkened.

Romans 3:28

For we reckon that a man is declared right by belief without works of Torah.

Romans 9:20

But who are you, O man, to talk back to Elohim? Shall that which is formed say to him who formed it, “Why have you made me like this?”

Galatians 5:6

For in Messiah יהושע  neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any strength, but belief working through love.

Galatians 6:3

For if anyone thinks himself to be somebody, when he is not, he deceives himself.

Colossians 2:8

See to it that no one makes a prey of you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary matters of the world, and not according to Messiah.

1 Timothy 1:6

which some, having missed the goal, turned aside to senseless talk,

Titus 1:10

For there are many unruly men, senseless talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,

James 1:26

If anyone among you thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this one’s religion is worthless.

James 2:17

So also belief, if it does not have works, is in itself dead.

James 2:26

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