James 2:17
Good News Translation
So it is with faith: if it is alone and includes no actions, then it is dead.

New Revised Standard Version
So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead.

Contemporary English Version
Faith that doesn't lead us to do good deeds is all alone and dead!

New American Bible
So also faith of itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

Douay-Rheims Bible
So faith also, if it have not works, is dead in itself.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

So faith also, if it have not works, is dead in itself.

so.

James 2:14,19,20,26 What shall it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but hath not works? Shall faith be able to save him? . . .

1 Corinthians 13:3,13 And if I should distribute all my goods to feed the poor, and if I should deliver my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. . . .

1 Thessalonians 1:3 Being mindful of the work of your faith and labour and charity: and of the enduring of the hope of our Lord Jesus Christ before God and our Father.

1 Timothy 1:5 Now the end of the commandment is charity from a pure heart, and a good conscience, and an unfeigned faith.

2 Peter 1:5-9 And you, employing all care, minister in your faith, virtue: And in virtue, knowledge: . . .

alone.

Context
Faith and Works
16And one of you say to them: Go in peace, be ye warmed and filled; yet give them not those things that are necessary for the body, what shall it profit? 17So faith also, if it have not works, is dead in itself. 18But some man will say: Thou hast faith, and I have works. Shew me thy faith without works; and I will shew thee, by works, my faith.…
Cross References
Galatians 5:6
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing nor uncircumcision: but faith that worketh by Charity.

James 2:20
But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?

James 2:26
For even as the body without the spirit is dead: so also faith without works is dead.

James 2:16
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