17Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
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For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; …
Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble. …
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?
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…
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