James 2:20

Now do you really want to understand, fool, how it is that faith without actions leads to nothing?

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In The King James Version

But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?

In Context

19It is a part of your faith, is it not, that there is one God? Good; yet even the demons have that faith, and tremble at the thought.

21Look at our ancestor, Abraham. Was he not justified by his actions after he had offered his son, Isaac, on the altar?

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Cross References

Romans 1:21because, although they learned to know God, yet they did not offer him as God either praise or thanksgiving. Their speculations about him proved futile, and their undiscerning minds were darkened.

Galatians 5:6If we are in union with Christ Jesus, neither is circumcision nor the omission of it anything, but faith, working through love, is everything.

Colossians 2:8Take care that there is not someone who will carry you away by his ‘philosophy’ – a hollow sham! – following, as it does, mere human traditions, and dealing with puerile questions of this world, and not with Christ.

Titus 1:10For there are many undisciplined persons who lead others astray with their nonsense, especially those of the group advocating the necessity of circumcision.

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 →

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