Because, having known God, they did not glorify Him as God, or give thanks, but became vain in their reasonings, and their senseless heart was darkened.
James 2:20 - English Majority Text Version But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead? Higit pang mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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) But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith apart from works is barren? Common English Bible Are you so slow? Do you need to be shown that faith without actions has no value at all? Catholic Public Domain Version So then, are you willing to understand, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead? |
Because, having known God, they did not glorify Him as God, or give thanks, but became vain in their reasonings, and their senseless heart was darkened.
Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.
But indeed, O man, who are you to be answering back against God? Surely the thing formed will not say to him who formed it, "Why did you made me like this?"
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything, but faith working through love.
For if anyone thinks that he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
Beware lest anyone captures you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ.
For there are also many insubordinate, both idle talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,
If anyone among you thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceiving his heart, the religion of this man is useless.
Thus also that faith, if it does not have works, is dead, being by itself
For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.