James 2:14

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Summary

James 2:14

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

What

Hebrews 13:9

Though

Can

1 Corinthians 15:2

Ephesians 2:8

Bible References

What

and one of you may say to them, Go in peace, be ye warmed, and be ye fed; and give them not the necessaries of the body; what profit is it?

For circumcision indeed profits, if you do the law: but if you be a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

And if I give all my goods to feed the poor, and if I may give my body that I shall be burnt, and have not divine love, I am profited as to nothing.

For bodily exercise is profitable unto little; but godliness is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.

Be not carried away with fantastical and strange teachings: for it is good that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, in which those going round were not profited.

Though

But one will say, You have faith, and I have works: Show me your faith apart from works, and I will show you my faith by my works.

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

For I say unto you, that if your righteousness may not abound more than that of the scribes and Pharisees, you can not enter into the kingdom of the heavens.

Not every one saying to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of the heavens; but he that doeth the will of my Father who is in the heavens.

But the one hearing and not doing, is like unto a man building his house upon the ground without a foundation; against which the river broke, and it fell immediately, and great was the fall of that house.

But Simon himself also believed: and being baptized, was constantly with Philip, both seeing the miracles and the great dynamites performed, was astonished.

and made no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.

And if I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not divine love, I am nothing.

If any one loves not the Lord as a friend, let him be anathema Maran atha.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision or uncircumcision avails anything; but faith working through divine love.

incessantly remembering your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope of our Lord Jesus Christ, before God even our Father;

but the end of the commandment is divine love out of a clean heart and a good conscience and faith free from hypocrisy:

They profess to know God, but deny him by their works, being abominable, and unbelieving, and reprobate unto every good work.

The word is faithful, and I wish you to be established concerning these things, in order that those having believed in God may think to excel in good works. These things are beautiful and useful to the people:

By faith Noah, being warned concerning things not yet seen, being moved with fear, prepared an ark for the salvation of his family; by which he condemned the world, and became heir to the righteousness which is according to faith.

And in harmony with this same thing also, add to your faith heroism; and to heroism, knowledge;

because everything which has been born of God conquers the world: and this is the victory which has conquered the world, our faith.

Can

by which you are also saved; which word I preached to you, if you hold it fast, otherwise you believed in vain.

For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: