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James 2:14

What [is] the profit, my brethren, if faith, any one may speak of having, and works he may not have? is that faith able to save him?

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?

In Context

13for the judgment without kindness [is] to him not having done kindness, and exult doth kindness over judgment.

15and if a brother or sister may be naked, and may be destitute of the daily food,

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Cross References

Matthew 5:20'For I say to you, that if your righteousness may not abound above that of the scribes and Pharisees, ye may not enter to the reign of the heavens.

Matthew 7:26'And every one who is hearing of me these words, and is not doing them, shall be likened to a foolish man who built his house upon the sand;

Acts 8:13and Simon also himself did believe, and, having been baptized, he was continuing with Philip, beholding also signs and mighty acts being done, he was amazed.

Acts 15:9and did put no difference also between us and them, by the faith having purified their hearts;

1 Corinthians 13:2and if I have prophecy, and know all the secrets, and all the knowledge, and if I have all the faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing;

1 Corinthians 16:22if any one doth not love the Lord Jesus Christ — let him be anathema! The Lord hath come!

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 →

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