James 2:17
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
Even so faith, if it has not works, is dead, being alone.
American King James Version (AKJV)
Even so faith, if it has not works, is dead, being alone.
American Standard Version (ASV)
Even so faith, if it have not works, is dead in itself.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
Even so faith without works is dead.
Webster's Revision
Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
World English Bible
Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself.
English Revised Version (ERV)
Even so faith, if it have not works, is dead in itself.
Clarke's James 2:17 Bible Commentary
If it hath not works, is dead - The faith that does not produce works of charity and mercy is without the living principle which animates all true faith, that is, love to God and love to man. They had faith, such as a man has who credits a well-circumstanced relation because it has all the appearance of truth; but they had nothing of that faith that a sinner, convinced of his sinfulness, God's purity, and the strictness of the Divine laws, is obliged to exert in the Lord Jesus, in order to be saved from his sins.
Wesley's James 2:17 Bible Commentary
2:17 So likewise that faith which hath not works is a mere dead, empty notion; of no more profit to him that hath it, than the bidding the naked be clothed is to him.