Bible in Basic English
"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?"
— James 2:14, Bible in Basic English
“What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?”
“What doth it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but have not works? can that 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 doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?”
For he who said, Do not be untrue in married life, is the same who said, Put no man to death. Now if you are not untrue in married life, but you put a man to death, the law is broken.
Let your words and your acts be those of men who are to be judged by the law which makes free.
For the man who has had no mercy will be judged without mercy, but mercy takes pride in overcoming judging.
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?
If a brother or a sister is without clothing and in need of the day's food,
And one of you says to them, Go in peace, be warm and full of food; but you do not give them the things of which their bodies have need, what profit is there in this?
Even so faith without works is dead.