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James 2:14
What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith and have not works? Can faith save him?
What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith and have not works? Can faith save him?
Verse 14. _WHAT_ DOTH IT _PROFIT - THOUGH A MAN SAY HE HATH FAITH_] We now come to a part of this epistle which has appeared to some eminent men to contradict other portions of the Divine records. In...
WHAT DOTH IT PROFIT, MY BRETHREN, THOUGH A MAN SAY HE HATH FAITH? - The apostle here returns to the subject adverted to in James 1:22, the importance of a practical attention to the duties of religion...
II. THE ROYAL LAW: FAITH AND WORKS CHAPTER 2 _ 1. The faith of Christ with respect to persons (James 2:1)_ 2. The royal law (James 2:6) 3. Faith must be manifested by works (James 2:14)...
The surface contradiction between James and Paul, which made Luther call this an epistle of straw, and the Tü bingen critics hail it as a Judaist's attack upon Paulinism, troubles no one now, simply b...
My brothers, what use is it, if a man claims to have faith and has no deeds to show? Are you going to claim that his faith is able to save him? If a brother or sister has nothing to wear and if they h...
My brothers, what use is it if a man claims to have faith and has no deeds to show? Are you going to claim that his faith is able to save him? If a brother or sister has nothing to wear, and if they h...
RESPECT OF PERSONS (James 2:1) _ 2:1 My brothers, you cannot really believe that you have faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ, and yet continue to have respect of persons._ Respect of persons is...
WHAT DOTH, &C. = What _is_ the profit (Greek. _ophelos)_. See 1 Corinthians 15:32. THOUGH. if, as in James 2:2. A MAN. one. App-123. WORKS. Compare Matthew 5:16. can
Justification by Faith and Works 14. _though a man say he hath faith_ The section on which we now enter has been the battle-field of almost endless controversies. It led Luther in the boldness of a ze...
14–26. THE RELATION BETWEEN ΠΊΣΤΙΣ AND ἜΡΓΑ:—a subject suggested by the preceding paragraph, but also probably by one of the questions referred to St James for solution. Such questions were frequently...
5–14. THE ROYAL LAW OF LOVE IS INFRINGED BY THE UNJUST AND SCORNFUL TREATMENT OF THE POOR DESCRIBED IN THE PRECEDING SECTION, AND THUS THE WHOLE LAW IS BROKEN...
_GOD STATES THE MESSAGE CLEARLY -- JAMES 2:14-18:_ The heart of the message of the book of James is "Faith in Action." James teaches that faith without works is barren or dead. Saving faith demands wo...
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_JAMES 2:14_.— The _Jews_ retained the highest reverence for their law, and would adhere to it as the method of justification or acceptance with God, even after the coming of the gospel of Christ. Whe...
CHAPTER V. _THE DEVIL'S FAITH_ James 2:14-26 _Introduction_ Faith has come to mean some kind of magic word by which men shall do the impossible, even to the acquisition of heaven. The word really m...
CAN FAITH-ONLY SAVE? _Text 2:14_ James 2:14. What doth it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but have not works? Can that faith save him? _Queries_ 129. What is the difference betwe...
What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him? James, passing from the particular "mercy" or "love" violated by "respect of persons," notw...
VERSE 14 WHAT DOTH IT PROFIT, MY BRETHREN, THOUGH A MAN SAY HE HATH FAITH, AND HAVE NOT WORKS? CAN FAITH SAVE HIM? Salvation all desire to secure. The conditions upon which it is suspended were known...
26 The outward form of divine service, the rites and ceremonies of the sacerdotal system of Moses, was but the exterior shell of truth. It was the letter: truth was the spirit. The ritual was full of...
WARNINGS AGAINST RESPECT OF PERSONS. BELIEF AND PRACTICE 1. Another instance of inconsistency. JESUS CHRIST _the Lord_ OF GLORY] better, 'Jesus Christ the glory,' or 'the glorious one,' One of the ra...
A third instance of inconsistency—great profession of belief without practice. In order to understand this passage we must bear in mind that St. James is here using the word 'faith' in a sense opposit...
WHAT *FAITH SHOULD DO JAMES _IAN MACKERVOY_ The word list at the end explains words with a *star by them. CHAPTER 2 RESPECT OF PERSONS 2:1-7 V1 My Christian brothers and sisters, you trust th...
WHAT DOTH IT (or, _is the_) PROFIT, MY BRETHREN, THOUGH A MAN SAY HE HATH FAITH, AND HAVE NOT WORKS? — Some allusion here is made most probably to the Shema, the Jewish creed, “Hear, O Israel, the Lor...
(14-26) FAITH AND WORKS. — We now enter on the most debatable ground of the Epistle; a battle-field strewn with the bones and weapons of countless adversaries. It is an easy thing to shoot “arrows, ev...
CHAPTER 12 FAITH AND WORKS: THREE VIEWS OF THE RELATION, OF THE TEACHING OF ST. JAMES TO THE TEACHING OF ST. PAUL-THE RELATION OF LUTHER TO BOTH. James 2:14 "What doth it profit, my brethren, if a m...
τί τὸ ὄφελος : B stands almost alone in omitting τό here; in 1 Corinthians 15:32, the only other place in the N.T. where the phrase occurs τό is inserted. A somewhat similar phrase occurs in Sir 41:14...
On this section see Introduction IV., § 2. There are a few points worth drawing attention to, in connection with the subject treated of in these verses, before we come to deal with the passage in deta...
DEEDS THE EVIDENCE OF FAITH James 2:14 The Apostle is speaking here of a faith that does not result in a changed life. It is the faith which believes _about_ Jesus Christ, as distinguished from that...
Proceeding, James dealt with the effect of faith on conduct. It makes it impossible to show any respect of persons on the ground of the possession of worldly wealth. To show such respect shows that th...
A FAITH THAT DOES NOT WORK IS USELESS Those who claimed to have faith but failed to be fair in their treatment of the poor, as well as rich, had a faith that would not save them. James does not say th...
(8) What [doth it] profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him? (8) The fifth place which follows very well with the former treatise, concerning a true...
Shall faith be able to save him? He now comes to one of the chief points of this epistle, to shew against the disciple of Simon, the magician, that faith alone will not save any one. We may take notic...
What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him? (15) If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, (16) And one of you say unt...
To the reader who enters on the consideration of the epistle of James from the epistles of Paul, the change is great and sudden, and by no means least of all from the epistle to the Hebrews, which, in...
_FAITH AND WORKS_ ‘Can faith save him?… Faith without works is dead.’ James 2:14; James 2:26 Salvation through faith is one of the most prominent truths of the Christian religion, and, in spite of...
14_What doth it profit_. He proceeds to commend mercy. And as he had threatened that God would be a severe Judge to us, and at the same time very dreadful, except we be kind and merciful towards our n...
The apostle now enters on the subject of those who professed to believe that Jesus was Christ the Lord. Before, in Chapter 1, he had spoken of the new nature in connection with God: here the professio...
WHAT DOTH IT PROFIT, MY BRETHREN,.... The apostle having finished his discourse on respect of persons, and the arguments he used to dissuade from it, by an easy transition passes to treat upon faith a...
What _doth it_ profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him? Ver. 14. _Though a man say he hath faith_] Saying serves not the turn. Livy telleth us of t...
_What doth it profit_ From James 1:22, the apostle has been enforcing Christian practice; he now applies to those who neglected this under the pretence of faith. St. Paul had taught, that _a man is ju...
CAN FAITH SAVE HIM? that kind of faith which is inactive, dead, and never does good? No....
The first 13 verses of this chapter form a second division of the book, dealing with the faith of Christ as being above all personal considerations, perfectly true and impartial. To mix the faith of C...
Can someone claim to have faith, but not be saved? How is the word “profit” used in this verse? What is meant by “works” in this section? Can faith save? Can faith without works save?...
It is essential we understand that in this section James is not pitting works against faith. The faith that cannot save (James 2:14 "can that faith save him?"), is. certain kind of faith.. faith that...
14-26 Those are wrong who put a mere notional belief of the gospel for the whole of evangelical religion, as many now do. No doubt, true faith alone, whereby men have part in Christ's righteousness,...
WHAT DOTH IT PROFIT; viz. as to his eternal salvation? Wherein are the ends of religion promoted by it? The apostle had just before declared, that they who are unmerciful to men shall find God severe...
James 2:14 What G5101 profit G3786 my G3450 brethren G80 if G1437 someone G5100 says G3004 (G5725) has...
The Reply Comes, ‘But Surely If We Have Faith That Is Enough. Will We Not Be Seen To Be Righteous Because We Have Faith In Christ? Then Surely It Does Not Really Matter How We Behave Towards Others'....
‘What does it profit, my brothers (and sisters), if a man say he has faith, but does not have works? Can that faith save him?' We should note carefully precisely what is said. The man ‘says' he has fa...
James 2:14-26. In this passage James continues to enforce practical religion. He tells his readers that faith destitute of works is of no avail to the saving of the soul, and is as useless as a charit...
James 2:14. The connection appears to be as follows: James has been showing that true religious worship does not consist in the performance of certain ceremonies, but in active beneficence extended to...
WHAT DOTH IT PROFIT? (τ οφελοσ;). Rhetorical question, almost of impatience. Old word from οφελλω, to increase, in N.T. only here, verse James 2:16; 1 Corinthians 15:32. " Τ οφελος was a common exp...
SAVE (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 1:16). _...
CONTENTS: The tests of brotherly love and good words. Justification before men by our works. CHARACTERS: Christ, James, Abraham, Isaac, Rahab. CONCLUSION: Those who are possessors of Christ's salvat...
James 2:1. _Have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons._ See James 1:1. The whole of this chapter turns on charity, which is the excellence of pure religio...
MY BROTHERS. See note on James 1:2. James begins a study of_ faith and actions._ Because some have misunderstood the nature of faith, they have said: (1) James deliberately contradicts and corrects th...
JAMES 2:14 Faith without Works Is Dead. James continues the theme that hearing/faith must lead to doing/works. It may seem that James contradicts Paul’s “by grace you have been saved through faith......
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ James 2:14. SAY.—Or, “make profession.” The man may really have the faith, but it cannot be an _effective_ faith if it finds no expression in actions. “Faith, without a...
EXPOSITION JAMES 2:1 WARNING AGAINST RESPECT OF PERSONS. JAMES 2:1 The translation is doubtful, two renderings being possible. (1) That of the A.V. and R.
Now my brothers, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons (James 2:1). This is so difficult. It is so easy for us to fall in the trap of respecting pers...
1 Corinthians 13:2; 1 Corinthians 13:3; 1 Corinthians 15:2; 1 Corinthians 16:22;...
What doth it profit ? [τ ι τ ο ο φ ε λ ο ς]. Lit., what is the profit ? Ofelov, profit, only here, ver. 16, and 1 Corinthians 14:32....
From James 1:22, the apostle has been enforcing Christian practice. He now applies to those who neglect this, under the pretence of faith. St. Paul had taught that "a man is justified by faith without...
Our apostle here enters upon the second part of his discourse contained in this chapter, namely, to shew the vanity of. fruitless faith; that such. faith as is not the parent and principle of obedienc...