James 2:20

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

Twentieth Century New Testament

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 not it the result of his actions that he was pronounced righteous 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 a man is 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 there is not some one 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 1:10There are, indeed, many unruly persons — great talkers who deceive themselves, principally converts from Judaism,

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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