James 2:14
My friends, what's the good of someone saying they trust in God when they don't do what's good and right? Can such “trust” save them?
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13Anyone who doesn't show mercy will be judged without mercy. Yet mercy wins out over judgment!
15If a brother or sister doesn't have clothes, or food for the day,
Cross References
Matthew 5:20I tell you, unless your moral rightness is more than that of the religious teachers and the Pharisees, you can never enter the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 7:26Everyone that hears the words I say, and doesn't follow them, is like a foolish man who built his house on the sand.
Acts 8:13Simon too believed and was baptized. He accompanied Philip, amazed at the miraculous signs and wonders he saw.
Acts 15:9He doesn't make any distinction between us and them—he cleansed their thoughts as they trusted in him.
1 Corinthians 13:2If I were to speak prophecies, to know every secret mystery and be completely knowledgeable, and if I were able to have so much faith I could move mountains, but have no love, then I am nothing.
1 Corinthians 16:22Anyone who doesn't love the Lord should be excluded from the church. Come Lord!
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 →