James 2:14 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

James 2:14 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Matthew 7:26-27
And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: …
Matthew 7:21-23
Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. …
James 1:22-25
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. …
Luke 6:49
But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth; against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great.
Titus 1:16
They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 14-26)

In this latter part of the chapter, the apostle shows the error of those who rested in a bare profession of the Christian faith, as if that would save them, while the temper of their minds and the tenour of their lives were altogether disagreeable to that holy religion which they professed. To let them see, therefore, what a wretched foundation they built their hopes upon, it is here proved at lar…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 14)

14. James here, passing from the particular case of “mercy” or “love” violated by “respect of persons,” notwithstanding profession of the “faith of our Lord Jesus” (Jas 2:1), combats the Jewish tendency (transplanted into their Christianity) to substitute a lifeless, inoperative acquaintance with the letter of the law, for change of heart to practical holiness, as if justification could be thereby…