Jas 2:17
Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone. {alone: Gr. by itself}
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For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. {spirit: or, breath}
And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.
What {doth it} profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these {is} charity.
Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and {of} a good conscience, and {of} faith unfeigned:
Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;
And though I bestow all my goods to feed {the poor}, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:
For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. {spirit: or, breath}
But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;
That the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.
By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. {keep...: or, hold fast} {what: Gr. by what speech}
But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth; against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great.
And that doeth not any of those {duties}, but even hath eaten upon the mountains, and defiled his neighbour's wife,
And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;