James 2:14
Context| NETBible | 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 |
| XREF | Jer 7:8; Mt 5:20; Mt 7:21-23,26,27; Lu 6:49; Ac 8:13,21; Ac 15:9; Ro 2:25; 1Co 13:2; 1Co 13:3; 1Co 15:2; 1Co 16:22; Ga 5:6,13; Eph 2:8-10; 1Th 1:3; 1Ti 1:5; 1Ti 4:8; Tit 1:16; Tit 3:8; Heb 11:7,8,17; Heb 13:9; Jas 1:22-25; Jas 2:16; Jas 2:18,26; 2Pe 1:5; 1Jo 5:4,5 |
| NET © Notes |
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. |
