James 2:14

World English Bible (2000)

What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?

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  • Matt 7:26-27 : 26 Everyone who hears these words of mine, and doesn't do them will be like a foolish man, who built his house on the sand. 27 The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it fell--and great was its fall."
  • Matt 7:21-23 : 21 Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 Many will tell me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, didn't we prophesy in your name, in your name cast out demons, and in your name do many mighty works?' 23 Then I will tell them, 'I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.'
  • Jas 1:22-25 : 22 But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves. 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror; 24 for he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. 25 But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom, and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.
  • 2 Pet 1:5 : 5 Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;
  • Heb 11:7-8 : 7 By faith, Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared a ship for the saving of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith. 8 By faith, Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out to the place which he was to receive for an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he went.
  • Heb 13:9 : 9 Don't be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.
  • Heb 11:17 : 17 By faith, Abraham, being tested, offered up Isaac. Yes, he who had gladly received the promises was offering up his one and only son;
  • Matt 5:20 : 20 For I tell you that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, there is no way you will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.
  • 1 Cor 13:2-3 : 2 If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don't have love, I am nothing. 3 If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don't have love, it profits me nothing.
  • 1 Cor 15:2 : 2 by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you--unless you believed in vain.
  • Luke 6:49 : 49 But he who hears, and doesn't do, is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream broke, and immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great."
  • Acts 8:13 : 13 Simon himself also believed. Being baptized, he continued with Philip. Seeing signs and great miracles occurring, he was amazed.
  • Acts 8:21 : 21 You have neither part nor lot in this matter, for your heart isn't right before God.
  • Acts 15:9 : 9 He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.
  • Eph 2:8-9 : 8 for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9 not of works, that no one would boast. 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.
  • 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.
  • Gal 5:6 : 6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.
  • Titus 1:16 : 16 They profess that they know God, but by their works they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.
  • Titus 3:8 : 8 This saying is faithful, and concerning these things I desire that you affirm confidently, so that those who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men;
  • Gal 5:13 : 13 For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don't use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.
  • 1 Tim 1:5 : 5 but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith;
  • 1 John 5:4-5 : 4 For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith. 5 Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
  • Jas 2:16 : 16 and one of you tells them, "Go in peace, be warmed and filled;" and yet you didn't give them the things the body needs, what good is it?
  • Jas 2:18 : 18 Yes, a man will say, "You have faith, and I have works." Show me your faith without works, and I by my works will show you my faith.
  • Jas 2:26 : 26 For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.
  • 1 Tim 4:8 : 8 For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.
  • Rom 2:25 : 25 For circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
  • 1 Cor 16:22 : 22 If any man doesn't love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be accursed. Come, Lord!

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    17 Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself.

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    20 But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?

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    24 You see then that by works, a man is justified, and not only by faith.

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    4 Now to him who works, the reward is not counted as grace, but as something owed.

    5 But to him who doesn't work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.

    6 Even as David also pronounces blessing on the man to whom God counts righteousness apart from works,

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    8 for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

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    6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

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    8 This saying is faithful, and concerning these things I desire that you affirm confidently, so that those who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men;

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

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    27 Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.

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    2 For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not toward God.

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    36 For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?

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    1 My brothers, don't hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with partiality.

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    6 And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.

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    11 Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, "The righteous will live by faith."

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    14 Let our people also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they may not be unfruitful.

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    14 If any man's work remains which he built on it, he will receive a reward.

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    22 Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. Happy is he who doesn't judge himself in that which he approves.

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    14 How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in him whom they have not heard? How will they hear without a preacher?

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    17 But whoever has the world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in him?

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    3 If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don't have love, it profits me nothing.

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    26 If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn't bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man's religion is worthless.

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    16 They profess that they know God, but by their works they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

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    22 But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

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    26 For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

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    20 for the anger of man doesn't produce the righteousness of God.

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    25 For circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

  • 1 Pet 4:18
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    18 "If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will happen to the ungodly and the sinner?"

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    9 What profit has he who works in that in which he labors?

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    17 For in it is revealed God's righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, "But the righteous shall live by faith."

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    15 and the prayer of faith will heal him who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.

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    28 They said therefore to him, "What must we do, that we may work the works of God?"