American Standard Version
"What doth it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but have not works? can that faith save him? "
— James 2:14, American Standard Version
“What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?”
“What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?”
“Faith and Works Together What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but does not have works? Can this kind of faith save him?”
“What shall it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but hath not works? Shall faith be able to save him?”
“What use is it, my brothers, for a man to say that he has faith, if he does nothing? will such a faith give him salvation?”
“What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?”
For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou dost not commit adultery, but killest, thou art become a transgressor of the law.
So speak ye, and so do, as men that are to be judged by a law of liberty.
For judgment is without mercy to him that hath showed no mercy: mercy glorieth against judgment.
What doth it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but have not works? can that faith save him?
If a brother or sister be naked and in lack of daily food,
and one of you say unto them, Go in peace, be ye warmed and filled; and yet ye give them not the things needful to the body; what doth it profit?
Even so faith, if it have not works, is dead in itself.