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14 What shall it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but hath not works? Shall faith be able to save him?

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Faith and Deeds

14 What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds?(A) Can such faith save them?

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

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17 In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.(A)

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

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20 You foolish person, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is useless[a]?(A)

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Footnotes

  1. James 2:20 Some early manuscripts dead

24 Do you see that by works a man is justified; and not by faith only?

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24 You see that a person is considered righteous by what they do and not by faith alone.

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26 For even as the body without the spirit is dead; so also faith without works is dead.

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26 As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.(A)

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