KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
James 2:18–19
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James 2:18
18Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.
18Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I haue workes: shew mee thy faith †without thy workes, and I will shew thee my faith by my workes.
- Some copies reade, by thy workes.
James 2:19
19Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.
19Thou beleeuest that there is one God, thou doest well: the deuils also beleeue, and tremble.
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DEFINED WORDS
James 2:18
Yes; truly; an expression of affirmation or emphasis.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
A human being; an adult male; a person, husband, servant, or representative, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To speak, declare, tell, or express; also what is said.
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Have: possess, hold, receive, or experience; also used as an auxiliary verb.
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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)
To show; to make visible, reveal, declare, or make known.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Outside; not within; lacking; free from; or in the absence of.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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James 2:19
To accept as true on testimony or evidence; to be persuaded of; to trust or place confidence in.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
The number one; a single person or thing; the same or united as a whole.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A deity or object of worship; when referring to the LORD, the one true God.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
In a good, right, or healthy manner or condition; also a deep source of water, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Evil spirits opposed to God.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To accept as true on testimony or evidence; to be persuaded of; to trust or place confidence in.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Open the full verse study13Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
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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 study6For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.
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Open the full verse study11For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,
12Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
13Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
14Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
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Open the full verse study7In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity,
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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;
4Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God.
5For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake.
6And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost:
7So that ye were ensamples to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia.
8For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing.
9For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;
10And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.
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Open the full verse study16Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
17Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
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Open the full verse study23And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith: for whatsoever is not of faith is sin.
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Open the full verse study31By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the spies with peace.
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Open the full verse study2And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
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Open the full verse study33Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,
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Open the full verse study6But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
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Open the full verse study28Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
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Open the full verse study17Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
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Open the full verse study1HAVING therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
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Open the full verse study22Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?
23And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.
24Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.
25Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way?
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Open the full verse study6Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,
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Open the full verse study1THERE is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
From verse 19
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Open the full verse study34Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art; the Holy One of God.
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Open the full verse study24Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God.
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Open the full verse study29And, behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us before the time?
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Open the full verse study17The same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, These men are the servants of the most high God, which shew unto us the way of salvation.
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Open the full verse study4Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord:
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Open the full verse study15And the evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are ye?
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Open the full verse study20Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one.
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Open the full verse study8Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any.
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Open the full verse study7And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not.
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Open the full verse study9Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me,
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Open the full verse study9And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Lord, and his name one.
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Open the full verse study5For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
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Open the full verse study10Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.
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Open the full verse study6Thus saith the Lord the King of Israel, and his redeemer the Lord of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.
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Open the full verse study29And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:
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Open the full verse study3And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
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Open the full verse study6But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.
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Open the full verse study30Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.
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Open the full verse study6That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the Lord, and there is none else.
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Open the full verse study5One Lord, one faith, one baptism,
6One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.
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Open the full verse study21Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? have not I the Lord? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me.
22Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.
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Open the full verse study10And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
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Open the full verse study4As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.
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Open the full verse study8If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:
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Open the full verse study6And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
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Open the full verse study2And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
3And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.
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Open the full verse study4For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Open the full verse study9And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.
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Open the full verse study25And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this time; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee.
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Open the full verse study4¶ Then said the Lord, Doest thou well to be angry?
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Open the full verse study9And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death.
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