James 2:20

James presses the foolish person to recognize that faith without works is barren. A workless faith is profitless and ineffective.

Cross-references · 14

• Jas 2:17So too, faith by itself, if it does not result in action, is dead.
• Jas 2:26As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.
• Prov 12:11The one who works his land will have plenty of food, but whoever chases fantasies lacks judgment.
• Rom 1:21For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts.
• Ps 94:8–11Take notice, O senseless among the people! O fools, when will you be wise?
• Gal 6:3If anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
• Jas 1:26If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not bridle his tongue, he deceives his heart and his religion is worthless.
• 1 Cor 15:35–36But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?”
• 1 Tim 1:6Some have strayed from these ways and turned aside to empty talk.
• Col 2:8See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, which are based on human tradition and the spiritual forces of the world rather than on Christ.
• Titus 1:10For many are rebellious and full of empty talk and deception, especially those of the circumcision,
• Jer 2:5This is what the LORD says: “What fault did your fathers find in Me that they strayed so far from Me, and followed worthless idols, and became worthless themselves?
• Job 11:11–12Surely He knows the deceit of men. If He sees iniquity, does He not take note?
• Gal 5:6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. All that matters is faith, expressed through love.

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