James 2:21

World English Bible (2000)

Wasn't Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?

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  • Gen 22:16-18 : 16 and said, "I have sworn by myself, says Yahweh, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son, 17 that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your seed greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand which is on the seashore. Your seed will possess the gate of his enemies. 18 In your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice."
  • Gen 22:9-9 : 9 They came to the place which God had told him of. Abraham built the altar there, and laid the wood in order, bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar, on the wood. 10 Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to kill his son. 11 The angel of Yahweh called to him out of the sky, and said, "Abraham, Abraham!" He said, "Here I am." 12 He said, "Don't lay your hand on the boy, neither do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me."
  • Josh 24:3 : 3 I took your father Abraham from beyond the River, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac.
  • Ps 143:2 : 2 Don't enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.
  • Isa 51:2 : 2 Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who bore you; for when he was but one I called him, and I blessed him, and made him many.
  • Matt 3:9 : 9 Don't think to yourselves, 'We have Abraham for our father,' for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.
  • Matt 12:37 : 37 For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned."
  • Matt 25:31-40 : 31 "But when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory. 32 Before him all the nations will be gathered, and he will separate them one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. 33 He will set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. 34 Then the King will tell those on his right hand, 'Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world; 35 for I was hungry, and you gave me food to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me drink. I was a stranger, and you took me in. 36 I was naked, and you clothed me. I was sick, and you visited me. I was in prison, and you came to me.' 37 "Then the righteous will answer him, saying, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry, and feed you; or thirsty, and give you a drink? 38 When did we see you as a stranger, and take you in; or naked, and clothe you? 39 When did we see you sick, or in prison, and come to you?' 40 "The King will answer them, 'Most certainly I tell you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.'
  • Luke 1:73 : 73 the oath which he spoke to Abraham, our father,
  • Luke 16:24 : 24 He cried and said, 'Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue! For I am in anguish in this flame.'
  • Luke 16:30 : 30 "He said, 'No, father Abraham, but if one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.'
  • John 8:39 : 39 They answered him, "Our father is Abraham." Jesus said to them, "If you were Abraham's children, you would do the works of Abraham.
  • John 8:53 : 53 Are you greater than our father, Abraham, who died? The prophets died. Who do you make yourself out to be?"
  • Acts 7:2 : 2 He said, "Brothers and fathers, listen. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,
  • Rom 3:20 : 20 Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
  • Rom 4:1 : 1 What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh?
  • Rom 4:12 : 12 He is the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had in uncircumcision.
  • Rom 4:16 : 16 For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the seed, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.
  • 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 2:24 : 24 You see then that by works, a man is justified, and not only by faith.

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  • Jas 2:22-26
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    22 You see that faith worked with his works, and by works faith was perfected;

    23 and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness;" and he was called the friend of God.

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

    25 In the same way, wasn't Rahab the prostitute also justified by works, in that she received the messengers, and sent them out another way?

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

  • Rom 4:1-6
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    1 What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh?

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

    3 For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness."

    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,

  • Jas 2:20
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    20 But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?

  • Heb 11:17-18
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    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;

    18 even he to whom it was said, "In Isaac will your seed be called;"

  • Gal 3:6-7
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    6 Even as Abraham "believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness."

    7 Know therefore that those who are of faith, the same are children of Abraham.

  • Gen 22:6-10
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    6 Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son. He took in his hand the fire and the knife. They both went together.

    7 Isaac spoke to Abraham his father, and said, "My father?" He said, "Here I am, my son." He said, "Here is the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?"

    8 Abraham said, "God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son." So they both went together.

    9 They came to the place which God had told him of. Abraham built the altar there, and laid the wood in order, bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar, on the wood.

    10 Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to kill his son.

  • Jas 2:17-18
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    17 Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself.

    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.

  • Gen 22:1-2
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    1 It happened after these things, that God tested Abraham, and said to him, "Abraham!" He said, "Here I am."

    2 He said, "Now take your son, your only son, whom you love, even Isaac, and go into the land of Moriah. Offer him there for a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will tell you of."

  • Rom 4:9-10
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    9 Is this blessing then pronounced on the circumcised, or on the uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness.

    10 How then was it counted? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.

  • Rom 4:22
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    22 Therefore it also was "reckoned to him for righteousness."

  • Rom 4:12
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    12 He is the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had in uncircumcision.

  • Rom 3:28
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    28 We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

  • Rom 9:10
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    10 Not only so, but Rebecca also conceived by one, by our father Isaac.

  • Gen 21:5
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    5 Abraham was one hundred years old when his son, Isaac, was born to him.

  • Jas 2:14
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    14 What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?

  • Gal 3:9
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    9 So then, those who are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham.

  • Gen 15:6
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    6 He believed in Yahweh; and he reckoned it to him for righteousness.

  • Rom 4:16-17
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    16 For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the seed, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.

    17 As it is written, "I have made you a father of many nations." This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.

  • Gen 22:13
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    13 Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and saw that behind him was a ram caught in the thicket by his horns. Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering instead of his son.

  • Gal 2:16
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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.

  • Heb 11:4
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    4 By faith, Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had testimony given to him that he was righteous, God testifying with respect to his gifts; and through it he, being dead, still speaks.

  • Heb 11:8
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    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.