James 2:17
By itself even your trust-based faith in God is dead and worthless if you don't actually do what's good and right.
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In The King James Version
Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
In Context
Cross References
1 Corinthians 13:3If I were to donate everything I own to the poor, or if I were to sacrifice myself to be burned as a martyr, and have no love, then I gain nothing.
1 Thessalonians 1:3We remember you before our God and Father—how you put your trust in him into practice, how you work hard in love, and how you patiently wait in the hope of our Lord Jesus Christ.
James 2:14My 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?
James 2:26Just as the body is dead without the spirit, trust in God is dead if you don't do what's right.
Matthew Henry on James 2:15-26
Faith and Works. ( a. d. 61.) 14 What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, 16 And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit? 17 Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone. 18 Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: show me thy faith… Read the whole commentary →