Discovery BoxJames 2:14 
ContextFaith and Works Together
2:14 What good is it, my brothers and sisters, 1 if someone claims to have faith but does not have works? Can this kind of faith 2 save him? 3
James 2:17
Context2:17 So also faith, if it does not have works, is dead being by itself.
James 2:26
Context2:26 For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.
1 tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:2.
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.
3 sn The form of the question in Greek expects a negative answer.
