James 2:17 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁷Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

James 2:26
For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
2 Peter 1:5-9
And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; …
James 2:19-20
Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble. …
1 Corinthians 13:13
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
James 2:14
What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?

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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. 17)

17. faith ... being alone--Alford joins “is dead in itself.” So Bengel, “If the works which living faith produces have no existence, it is a proof that faith itself (literally, ‘in respect to itself’) has no existence; that is, that what one boasts of as faith, is dead.” “Faith” is said to be “dead in itself,” because when it has works it is alive, and it is discerned to be so, not in respect to i…