New American Standard Bible 1995

James 2:14-20

14 1What use is it, 2my brethren, if someone says he has faith but he has no works? Can 3that faith save him? 15 4If a brother or sister is without clothing and in need of daily food, 16and one of you says to them, “5Go in peace, 6be warmed and be filled,” and yet you do not give them what is necessary for their body, what use is that? 17Even so 7faith, if it has no works, is 8dead, being by itself.

18 9But someone 10may well say, “You have faith and I have works; show me your 11faith without the works, and I will 12show you my faith 13by my works.” 19You believe that 14 15God is one. 16You do well; 17the demons also believe, and shudder. 20But are you willing to recognize, 18you foolish fellow, that 19faith without works is useless?

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Notes

1. James 2:14 James 1:22ff ↩
2. James 2:14 James 1:16 ↩
3. James 2:14 Lit the ↩
4. James 2:15 Matt 25:35f; Luke 3:11 ↩
5. James 2:16 1 John 3:17f ↩
6. James 2:16 Or warm yourselves and fill yourselves ↩
7. James 2:17 Gal 5:6; James 2:20, 26 ↩
8. James 2:17 Or dead by its own standards ↩
9. James 2:18 Rom 9:19 ↩
10. James 2:18 Lit will ↩
11. James 2:18 Rom 3:28; 4:6; Heb 11:33 ↩
12. James 2:18 James 3:13 ↩
13. James 2:18 Matt 7:16f; Gal 5:6 ↩
14. James 2:19 One early ms reads there is one God ↩
15. James 2:19 Deut 6:4; Mark 12:29 ↩
16. James 2:19 James 2:8 ↩
17. James 2:19 Matt 8:29; Mark 1:24; 5:7; Luke 4:34; Acts 19:15 ↩
18. James 2:20 Rom 9:20; 1 Cor 15:36 ↩
19. James 2:20 Gal 5:6; James 2:17, 26 ↩

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