James 2:14

Faith and Works Together

2:14 What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but does not have works? Can this kind of faith save him?

James 2:17

2:17 So also faith, if it does not have works, is dead being by itself.

tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:2.

tn Grk “the faith,” referring to the kind of faith just described: faith without works. The article here is anaphoric, referring to the previous mention of the noun πίστις (pisti") in the verse. See ExSyn 219.

sn The form of the question in Greek expects a negative answer.