James 2:14

Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

What a vayleth it my brethren though a man saye he hath sayth when he hath no dedes? Can fayth save him?

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Τί τὸ ὄφελος, ἀδελφοί μου, ἐὰν πίστιν λέγῃ τις ἔχειν, ἔργα δὲ μὴ ἔχῃ; μὴ δύναται ἡ πίστις σῶσαι αὐτόν;

Transliteration

What the ophelos, adelphoi my, if pistin legē tis echein, erga de not echē? Not dynatai the pistis sōsai him?

Grammar Details

• Τί: interrogative pronoun, nominative, neuter, singular - what
• τὸ *ophelos*: nominative, neuter, singular - the profit/advantage
• *adelphoi*: vocative, masculine, plural - brothers
• μου: genitive, first person, singular - my/of me
• ἐὰν: conditional particle - if
• *pistin*: accusative, feminine, singular - faith
• *legē*: present, active, subjunctive, 3rd person singular - may say
• τις: indefinite pronoun, nominative, masculine, singular - someone
• *echein*: present, active, infinitive - to have
• *erga*: accusative, neuter, plural - works
• *de*: postpositive conjunction - but/and
• μὴ: negative particle (interrogative) - not
• *echē*: present, active, subjunctive, 3rd person singular - may have
• *dynatai*: present, middle, indicative, 3rd person singular - is able
• ἡ *pistis*: nominative, feminine, singular - the faith
• *sōsai*: aorist, active, infinitive - to save
• αὐτόν: accusative, masculine, singular - him

Word Meanings

• *ophelos*: profit/advantage/benefit/use
• *adelphoi*: brothers/fellow believers/siblings in faith
• *pistin*: faith/belief/trust
• *legē*: may say/claim/profess
• *echein*: to have/possess
• *erga*: works/deeds/actions
• *echē*: may have/possess
• *dynatai*: is able/can
• *pistis*: faith/belief/trust
• *sōsai*: to save/rescue/deliver

Referenced Verses

• Matt 7:26-27 : 26 And whosoever heareth of me these sayinges and doth the not shalbe lykened vnto a folysh man which bilt hys housse apo the sondes: 27 and abundauce of rayne descended and the fluddes came and ye wyndes blewe and beet vpon that housse and it fell and great was the fall of it.
• Matt 7:21-23 : 21 Not all they that saye vnto me Master Master shall enter in to the kyngdome of heven: but he that dothe my fathers will which ys in heven. 22 Many will saye to me in that daye Master master have we not in thy name prophesied? And in thy name have caste oute devyls? And in thy name have done many miracles? 23 And then will I knowlege vnto them that I never knewe them. Departe from me ye workers of iniquite.
• Jas 1:22-25 : 22 And se that ye be doars of the worde and not hearers only deceavinge youre awne selves with sophistrie 23 For yf eny heare the worde and do it not he is lyke vnto a man that beholdeth his bodyly face in a glasse. 24 For assone as he hath loked on him silfe he goeth his waye and forgetteth immediatlie what his fassion was. 25 But who so loketh in the parfaict lawe of libertie and continueth ther in (yf he be not a forgetfull hearer but a doar of ye worke) the same shall be happie in his dede.
• 2 Pet 1:5 : 5 And hervnto geve all diligence: in youre fayth minister vertve and in vertue knowledg
• Heb 11:7-8 : 7 By fayth Noe honored God after that he was warned of thinges which were not sene and prepared the arcke to the savinge of his houssholde thorowe the which arcke he condempned the worlde and became heyre of the rightewesnes which commeth by fayth. 8 By fayth Abraha whe he was called obeyed to goo out into a place which he shuld afterwarde receave to inheritaunce and he wet out not knowynge whether he shuld goo.
• Heb 13:9 : 9 Be not caryed aboute with divers and straunge learnynge. For it is a good thynge that the herte be stablisshed with grace and not with meates which have not proffeted them that have had their pastyme in them.
• Heb 11:17 : 17 In fayth Abraham offered vp Isaac whe he was tempted and he offered him beinge his only begotten sonne which had receaved the promyses
• Matt 5:20 : 20 For I saye vnto you except youre rightewesnes excede the righetewesnes of ye Scribes and Pharises ye canot entre into ye kyngdome of heven.
• 1 Cor 13:2-3 : 2 And though I coulde prophesy and vnderstode all secretes and all knowledge: yee yf I had all fayth so that I coulde move moutayns oute of ther places and yet had no love I were nothynge. 3 And though I bestowed all my gooddes to fede ye poore and though I gave my body even that I burned and yet had no love it profeteth me nothinge.
• 1 Cor 15:2 : 2 by which also ye are saved: I do you to wit after what maner I preached vnto you yf ye kepe it except ye have beleved in vayne.
• Luke 6:49 : 49 But he that heareth and doth not is lyke a man that with out foundacion bylt an housse apon the erth agaynst which the fludde did bet: and it fell by and by. And ye fall of yt housse was greate.
• Acts 8:13 : 13 Then Simon him selfe beleved also and was baptised and cotinued with Phillip and wondered beholdynge the miracles and signes which were shewed.
• Acts 8:21 : 21 Thou hast nether parte nor felloushippe in this busines. For thy hert is not ryght in the syght of God.
• Acts 15:9 : 9 and he put no difference bitwene them and vs but with fayth purified their hertes.
• Eph 2:8-9 : 8 For by grace are ye made safe thorowe fayth and that not of youre selves. For it is the gyfte of God 9 and commeth not of workes lest eny man shuld bost him silfe. 10 For we are his worckmanshippe created in Christ Iesu vnto good workes vnto the which god ordeyned vs before that we shuld walke in them.
• 1 Thess 1:3 : 3 with out ceasynge and call to remembraunce youre worke in the faythe and labour in love and perseveraunce in the hope of oure LORde Iesus Christ in the sight of God oure father:
• Gal 5:6 : 6 For in Iesu Christ nether is circumcision enythinge worth nether yet vncircocision but faith which by love is mighty in operacion.
• Titus 1:16 : 16 They confesse that they knowe god: but with the dedes they denye hym and are abhominable and disobedient and vnto all good workes discommendable.
• Titus 3:8 : 8 This is a true sayinge. Of these thinges I wolde thou shuldest certifie that they which beleve God myght be diligent to go forwarde in good workes. These thinges are good and proffitable vnto me.
• Gal 5:13 : 13 Brethre ye were called in to (libertie) only let not youre libertie be an occasion vnto the flesshe but in love serve one another.
• 1 Tim 1:5 : 5 for ye ende of the comaundemet is love that cometh of a pure herte and of a good conscience and of fayth vnfayned:
• 1 John 5:4-5 : 4 For all that is borne of god over commeth the worlde. And this is the victory that overcometh the worlde even oure fayth. 5 Who is it that overcommeth the worlde: but he which beleveth that Iesus is ye sonne of god?
• Jas 2:16 : 16 and one of you saye vnto them: Departe in peace God sende you warmnes and fode: not withstondinge ye geve the not tho thynges which are nedfull to the body: what helpeth it the?
• Jas 2:18 : 18 Ye and a man myght saye: Thou hast fayth and I have dedes: Shewe me thy fayth by thy dedes: and I will shewe the my fayth by my dedes.
• Jas 2:26 : 26 For as the body with oute the sprete is deed eve so fayth with out dedes is deed
• 1 Tim 4:8 : 8 For bodely exercise proffiteth lyttll: But godlines is good vnto all thynges as a thynge which hath promyses of the lyfe that is now and of the lyfe to come.
• Rom 2:25 : 25 Circumcisio verely avayleth if thou kepe the lawe. But if thou breake the lawe thy circumcision is made vncircumcision.
• 1 Cor 16:22 : 22 Yf eny man love not the Lorde Iesus Christ the same be anathema maranatha.