What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
James 2:14 in context
James 2:11–17
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For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not commit murder.” Now if you do not commit adultery but do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.
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So speak and so do as men who are to be judged by the law of freedom.
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For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
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What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?
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And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food,
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and one of you tells them, “Go in peace. Be warmed and filled;” yet you didn’t give them the things the body needs, what good is it?
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Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself.
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