¶ For I say unto you except your righteousness exceed the righteousness of the scribes and pharises, ye cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven.
James 2:14 - William Tyndale New Testament ¶ What availeth it my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, when he hath no deeds? Can faith save him? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition What is the use (profit), my brethren, for anyone to profess to have faith if he has no [good] works [to show for it]? Can [such] faith save [his soul]? American Standard Version (1901) What doth it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but have not works? can that faith save him? Common English Bible My brothers and sisters, what good is it if people say they have faith but do nothing to show it? Claiming to have faith can’t save anyone, can it? Catholic Public Domain Version My brothers, what benefit is there if someone claims to have faith, but he does not have works? How would faith be able to save him? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version What shall it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but hath not works? Shall faith be able to save him? |
¶ For I say unto you except your righteousness exceed the righteousness of the scribes and pharises, ye cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven.
He answered and said unto them: He that hath ij. coats, let him part with him that hath none: And he that hath meat, let him do likewise.
But he that heareth and doth not, is like a man, that without foundation built an house upon the earth, against which, the flood beat: and it fell by and by. And the fall of that house was great.
And he put no difference between them and us, and with faith purified their hearts.
Then Simon himself believed and was baptised. And continued with Philip, and wondered beholding the miracles and signs, which were shewed.
thou hast neither part nor fellowship in this business. For thy heart is not right in the sight of God.
¶ Circumcision verily availeth if thou keep the law: But if thou break the law thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.
by the which also ye are saved, I do you to wit after what manner I preached unto you, if ye keep it, except ye have believed in vain.
If any man love not the Lord Iesus Christ, the same be anathema maranatha.
Brethren ye were called into liberty, only let not your liberty be an occasion unto the flesh but in love serve one another.
For in Iesu Christ, neither is circumcision anything worth, neither yet uncircumcision, but faith which by love is mighty in operation.
without ceasing, and call to remembrance your work in the faith, and labour in love and perseverance in the hope of our Lord Iesus Christ, in the sight of God our father:
for the end of the commandment is love that cometh of a pure heart and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:
For bodily exercise profiteth little: But godliness is good unto all things, as a thing which hath promises of the life that is now, and of the life to come.
They confess that they know God: but with deeds they deny him and are abominable, and disobedient, and unto all good works discommendable.
This is a true saying. ¶ Of these things I would thou shouldest certify, that they which believe God, might be studious to go forward in good works. These things are good and profitable unto men.
¶ In faith Abraham offered up Isaac, when he was tempted, and he offered him being his only son, in whom he had received the promises:
Be not carried thither with divers and strange learning. For it is a good thing that the heart be stablished with grace, and not with meats, which have not profited them that have had their pastime in them.
and one of you say unto them: Depart in peace, God send you warmness and food: notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body: what helpeth it them?
¶ But one shall say: Thou hast faith, and I have deeds: Shew me thy faith by thy deeds: and I will shew thee my faith by my deeds.
For as the body, without the spirit is dead, even so faith without deeds is dead.
¶ And hereunto give all diligence: in your faith minister virtue, and in virtue knowledge,