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James 2:17
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James 2:17
17Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
17Euen so faith, if it hath not works, is dead being †alone.
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James 2:17
Just as, or in the same manner stated.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Trust, belief, confidence, or reliance; especially trust in God and belief in his word, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828
Acts, deeds, labours, or things produced; also acts or operates.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Without life; deprived of life; also lifeless, inactive, insensible, or separated from a former state by figure.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Separately; by itself.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
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Open the full verse study26For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
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Open the full verse study5And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
6And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
7And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
8For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
9But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
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Open the full verse study19Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.
20But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
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Open the full verse study13And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
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Open the full verse study14What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?
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Open the full verse study5Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:
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Open the full verse study3Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;
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Open the full verse study3And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
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