14What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?


In Context

11 For he who said, |Do not commit adultery,| also said, |Do not commit murder.| Now if you do not commit adultery, but murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.

12 So speak, and so do, as men who are to be judged by a law of freedom.

13 For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

14 What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?

15 And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food,

16 and one of you tells them, |Go in peace, be warmed and filled;| and yet you didn't give them the things the body needs, what good is it?

James 2:14 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:14What [doth it] profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

2:14What good is it, my brothers, if a man claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save him?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

2:14What shall it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but hath not works? Shall faith be able to save him?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

2:14What doth it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but have not works? can that faith save him?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:14What is the profit, my brethren, if any one say he have faith, but have not works? can faith save him?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

2:14What doth it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but have not works? can that faith save him?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:14What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man sayeth he hath faith, and hath not works? can faith save him?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:14What is the profit, my brethren, if faith, any one may speak of having, and works he may not have? is that faith able to save him?

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:14What does it profit, my brothers, though a man say he has faith, and have not works? can faith save him?