James 2:14
What [is] the profit, my brethren, if any one say he have faith, but have not works? can faith save him?
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
13for judgment [will be] without mercy to him that has shewn no mercy. Mercy glories over judgment.
15Now if a brother or a sister is naked and destitute of daily food,
Cross References
Matthew 5:20For I say unto you, that unless your righteousness surpass [that] of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of the heavens.
Matthew 7:26And every one who hears these my words and does not do them, he shall be likened to a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand;
Acts 8:13And Simon also himself believed; and, having been baptised, continued constantly with Philip; and, beholding the signs and great works of power which took place, was astonished.
Acts 15:9and put no difference between us and them, having purified their hearts by faith.
1 Corinthians 13:2And if I have prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
1 Corinthians 16:22If any one love not the Lord [Jesus Christ] let him be Anathema Maranatha.
Matthew Henry on James 2:9-14
The Christian Law. ( a. d. 61.) 8 If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well: 9 But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors. 10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. 11 For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law. 12 So speak ye, and so… Read the whole commentary →