James 2:14

American Standard Version

What doth it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but have not works? can that faith save him?

Read all of James 2Open in the Sinai app

James 2:14 in other translations

What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?

James 2:14 · World English Bible

James 2:14 in context

  1. 12So speak ye, and so do, as men that are to be judged by a law of liberty.
  2. 13For judgment is without mercy to him that hath showed no mercy: mercy glorieth against judgment.
  3. 14What doth it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but have not works? can that faith save him?
  4. 15If a brother or sister be naked and in lack of daily food,
  5. 16and one of you say unto them, Go in peace, be ye warmed and filled; and yet ye give them not the things needful to the body; what doth it profit?

Topics this verse speaks to