Discovery BoxJames 1:18 
Context1:18 By his sovereign plan he gave us birth 1 through the message of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.
James 2:14
ContextFaith and Works Together
2:14 What good is it, my brothers and sisters, 2 if someone claims to have faith but does not have works? Can this kind of faith 3 save him? 4
1 tn Grk “Having willed, he gave us birth.”
2 tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:2.
3 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.
4 sn The form of the question in Greek expects a negative answer.
