James 2:20

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You fool! Faith that does nothing is worth nothing. Do you want me to prove this to you?

Cross References

James 2:26

A person’s body that does not have a spirit is dead. It is the same with faith—faith that does nothing is dead!

James 2:17

It is the same with faith. If it is just faith and nothing more—if it doesn’t do anything—it is dead.

Proverbs 12:11

Farmers who work their land have plenty of food, but those who waste their time on worthless projects are foolish.

Romans 1:21

People knew God, but they did not honor him as God, and they did not thank him. Their ideas were all useless. There was not one good thought left in their foolish minds.

Galatians 6:3

If you think you are too important to do this, you are only fooling yourself.

James 1:26

You might think you are a very religious person. But if your tongue is out of control, you are fooling yourself. Your careless talk makes your offerings to God worthless.

Titus 1:10

This is important, because there are many people who refuse to obey—people who talk about worthless things and mislead others. I am talking especially about those who say that men who are not Jews must be circumcised to please God.

1 Timothy 1:6

But some have missed this key point in their teaching and have gone off in another direction. Now they talk about things that help no one.

Colossians 2:8

Be sure you are not led away by the teaching of those who have nothing worth saying and only plan to deceive you. That teaching is not from Christ. It is only human tradition and comes from the powers that influence this world.

Jeremiah 2:5

This is what the Lord says: “Do you think that I was not fair to your ancestors? Is that why they turned away from me? Your ancestors worshiped worthless idols, and they became worthless themselves.

Galatians 5:6

When someone belongs to Christ Jesus, it is not important if they are circumcised or not. The important thing is faith—the kind of faith that works through love.

Romans 3:28

I mean we are made right with God through faith, not through what we have done to follow the law. This is what we believe.

Romans 9:20

Don’t ask that. You are only human and have no right to question God. A clay jar does not question the one who made it. It does not say, “Why did you make me like this?”