James 2:17

American Standard Version (1901)

Even so faith, if it have not works, is dead in itself.

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  • Jas 2:26 : 26 For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.
  • 1 Tim 1:5 : 5 But the end of the charge is love out of a pure heart and a good conscience and faith unfeigned:
  • Jas 2:14 : 14 What doth it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but have not works? can that faith save him?
  • Jas 2:19-20 : 19 Thou believest that God is one; thou doest well: the demons also believe, and shudder. 20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith apart from works is barren?
  • 2 Pet 1:5-9 : 5 Yea, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply virtue; and in [your] virtue knowledge; 6 and in [your] knowledge self-control; and in [your] self-control patience; and in [your] patience godliness; 7 and in [your] godliness brotherly kindness; and in [your] brotherly kindness love. 8 For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to be not idle nor unfruitful unto the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 For he that lacketh these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.
  • 1 Cor 13:13 : 13 But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
  • 1 Thess 1:3 : 3 remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;
  • 1 Cor 13:3 : 3 And if I bestow all my goods to feed [the poor], and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing.

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  • Jas 2:24-26
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    24Ye see that by works a man is justified, and not only by faith.

    25And in like manner was not also Rahab the harlot justified by works, in that she received the messengers, and sent them out another way?

    26For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.

  • Jas 2:18-22
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    18Yea, a man will say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: show me thy faith apart from [thy] works, and I by my works will show thee [my] faith.

    19Thou believest that God is one; thou doest well: the demons also believe, and shudder.

    20But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith apart from works is barren?

    21Was not Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son upon the altar?

    22Thou seest that faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect;

  • Jas 2:13-16
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    13For judgment [is] without mercy to him that hath showed no mercy: mercy glorieth against judgment.

    14What doth it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but have not works? can that faith save him?

    15If a brother or sister be naked and in lack of daily food,

    16and one of you say unto them, Go in peace, be ye warmed and filled; and yet ye give them not the things needful to the body; what doth it profit?

  • Rom 4:4-6
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    4Now to him that worketh, the reward is not reckoned as of grace, but as of debt.

    5But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is reckoned for righteousness.

    6Even as David also pronounceth blessing upon the man, unto whom God reckoneth righteousness apart from works,

  • Gal 3:5-6
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    5He therefore that supplieth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, [doeth he it] by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

    6Even as Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned unto him for righteousness.

  • Rom 3:27-28
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    27Where then is the glorying? It is excluded. By what manner of law? of works? Nay: but by a law of faith.

    28We reckon therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

  • Eph 2:8-9
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    8for by grace have ye been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, [it is] the gift of God;

    9not of works, that no man should glory.

  • Gal 2:16
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    16yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed on Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law: because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

  • Rom 11:6
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    6But if it is by grace, it is no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace.

  • Rom 1:17
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    17For therein is revealed a righteousness of God from faith unto faith: as it is written, But the righteous shall live by faith.

  • Rom 4:2
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    2For if Abraham was justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not toward God.

  • Jas 1:22-23
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    22But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deluding your own selves.

    23For if any one is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a mirror:

  • Heb 4:2
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    2For indeed we have had good tidings preached unto us, even as also they: but the word of hearing did not profit them, because it was not united by faith with them that heard.

  • Gal 5:6
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    6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision; but faith working through love.

  • Rom 10:17
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    17So belief [cometh] of hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.

  • Gal 3:11-12
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    11Now that no man is justified by the law before God, is evident: for, The righteous shall live by faith;

    12and the law is not of faith; but, He that doeth them shall live in them.

  • Titus 3:8
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    8Faithful is the saying, and concerning these things I desire that thou affirm confidently, to the end that they who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men:

  • Heb 11:1
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    1Now faith is assurance of [things] hoped for, a conviction of things not seen.

  • Heb 11:6
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    6And without faith it is impossible to be well-pleasing [unto him] ; for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and [that] he is a rewarder of them that seek after him.

  • Rom 10:8
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    8But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach:

  • Titus 1:16
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    16They profess that they know God; but by their works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.

  • 2 Cor 4:12
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    12So then death worketh in us, but life in you.

  • John 10:37
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    37If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.

  • Jas 1:3
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    3Knowing that the proving of your faith worketh patience.

  • Rom 3:3
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    3For what if some were without faith? shall their want of faith make of none effect the faithfulness of God?

  • Titus 3:14
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    14And let our [people] also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful.

  • 1 Cor 15:16-17
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    16For if the dead are not raised, neither hath Christ been raised:

    17and if Christ hath not been raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.

  • 2 Thess 3:10
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    10For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, If any will not work, neither let him eat.

  • 1 Tim 5:8
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    8But if any provideth not for his own, and specially his own household, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

  • Eph 2:1
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    1And you [did he make alive], when ye were dead through your trespasses and sins,

  • Jas 1:26
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    26If any man thinketh himself to be religious, while he bridleth not his tongue but deceiveth his heart, this man's religion is vain.

  • Gal 3:9
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    9So then they that are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham.

  • Heb 11:3
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    3By faith we understand that the worlds have been framed by the word of God, so that what is seen hath not been made out of things which appear.