James 2:20

Twentieth Century New Testament 1904

Now do you really want to understand, you foolish man, how it is that faith without actions leads to nothing?

Cross References

Romans 1:21

Because, although they learned to know God, yet they did not offer him as God either praise or thanksgiving. Their speculations about him proved futile, and their undiscerning minds were darkened.

Romans 3:28

For we conclude that a man is pronounced righteous on the ground of faith, quite apart from obedience to Law.

Romans 9:20

I might rather ask 'Who are you who are arguing with God?' Does a thing which a man has molded say to him who has molded it 'Why did you make me like this?'

Galatians 5:6

If a man is in union with Christ Jesus, neither is circumcision nor the omission of it anything, but faith, working through love, is everything.

Galatians 6:3

If a man imagines himself to be somebody, when he is really nobody, he deceives himself.

Colossians 2:8

Take care there is not some one who will carry you away by his 'philosophy'--a hollow sham!--following, as it does, mere human traditions, and dealing with puerile questions of this world, and not with Christ.

1 Timothy 1:6

And it is because they have not aimed at these things that the attention of certain people has been diverted to unprofitable subjects.

Titus 1:10

There are, indeed, many unruly persons--great talkers who deceive themselves, principally converts from Judaism,

James 1:26

When a man appears to be religious, yet does not bridle his tongue, but imposes upon his own conscience, that man's religious observances are valueless.

James 2:17

In just the same way faith, if not followed by actions, is, by itself, a lifeless thing.

James 2:26

Exactly as a body is dead without a spirit, so faith is dead without actions.