James 2:20 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁰But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?

James 2:20 —

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Cross-References

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James 2:17
Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
James 2:26
For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
Proverbs 12:11
He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding.
Romans 1:21
Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
Galatians 6:3
For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.

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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. 20)

20. wilt thou know--“Vain” men are not willing to know, since they have no wish to “do” the will of God. James beseeches such a one to lay aside his perverse unwillingness to know what is palpable to all who are willing to do. vain--who deceivest thyself with a delusive hope, resting on an unreal faith. without works--The Greek, implies separate from the works [Alford] which ought to flow from it…