Catholic Public Domain Version
"My brothers, what benefit is there if someone claims to have faith, but he does not have works? How would faith be able to save him? "
— James 2:14, Catholic Public Domain Version
“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 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 who said, “You shall not commit adultery,” also said, “You shall not kill.” So if you do not commit adultery, but you kill, you have become a transgressor of the law.
So speak and act just as you are beginning to be judged, by the law of liberty.
For judgment is without mercy toward him who has not shown mercy. But mercy exalts itself above judgment.
My brothers, what benefit is there if someone claims to have faith, but he does not have works? How would faith be able to save him?
So if a brother or sister is naked and daily in need of food,
and if anyone of you were to say to them: “Go in peace, keep warm and nourished,” and yet not give them the things that are necessary for the body, of what benefit is this?
Thus even faith, if it does not have works, is dead, in and of itself.