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Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself.
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Faith Without Action is Empty
Commentators explain that faith without works is like telling a hungry, cold person "be warm and well fed" without offering any actual food or clothing. Such words are heartless and useless. In the same way, a faith that doesn't produce good deeds is an empty, lifeless profession that cannot save.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
If a brother or sister be naked, etc. The comparison in these verses is very obvious and striking. The sense is, that faith in itself, wit…
If it have not works (εαν μη εχη εργα). Another condition of the third class with εαν and μη and the present active subjunctive of…
19th Century
Anglican
Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.—Better, like the margin, is dead in its own self. If …
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James states the proposition he intends to demonstrate in the following verses: “Faith... not accompanied by action is dead.” Action is the proper …
16th Century
Protestant
Is dead, being alone. He says that faith is dead, being by itself, that is, when lacking good works. We therefore conclude that it is inde…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Even so faith, if it has not works, is dead, being alone . ] It is like a lifeless carcass, a body without a soul, ([Refe…
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