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James 2:14,17,18,24

MSG The Message

Faith in Action

14-17 Dear friends, do you think you’ll get anywhere in this if you learn all the right words but never do anything? Does merely talking about faith indicate that a person really has it? For instance, you come upon an old friend dressed in rags and half-starved and say, "Good morning, friend! Be clothed in Christ! Be filled with the Holy Spirit!" and walk off without providing so much as a coat or a cup of soup—where does that get you? Isn’t it obvious that God-talk without God-acts is outrageous nonsense?

18 I can already hear one of you agreeing by saying, "Sounds good. You take care of the faith department, I’ll handle the works department."

Not so fast. You can no more show me your works apart from your faith than I can show you my faith apart from my works. Faith and works, works and faith, fit together hand in glove.

21-24 Wasn’t our ancestor Abraham "made right with God by works" when he placed his son Isaac on the sacrificial altar? Isn’t it obvious that faith and works are yoked partners, that faith expresses itself in works? That the works are "works of faith"? The full meaning of "believe" in the Scripture sentence, "Abraham believed God and was set right with God," includes his action. It’s that weave of believing and acting that got Abraham named "God’s friend." Is it not evident that a person is made right with God not by a barren faith but by faith fruitful in works?

Em outras traduções

  1. KJV King James Version

    14 What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him? 17 Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone. 18 Yea, 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. 24 Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.

  2. NIV New International Version

    14 What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? 17 In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.

    18 But someone will say, "You have faith; I have deeds."

    Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by my deeds.

    24 You see that a person is considered righteous by what they do and not by faith alone.

  3. ESV English Standard Version

    14 What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith [ch. 1:22]but does not have works? Can that faith save him? 17 So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

    18 But someone will say, "You have faith and I have works." Show me your faith [Rom. 3:28;4:6;Heb. 11:33] apart from your works, and I will show you my faith Matt. 7:16,17;Gal. 5:6by my works. 24 You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.

  4. NLT New Living Translation

    14 What good is it, dear brothers and sisters, if you say you have faith but don’t show it by your actions? Can that kind of faith save anyone?

    17 So you see, faith by itself isn’t enough. Unless it produces good deeds, it is dead and useless.

    18 Now someone may argue, "Some people have faith; others have good deeds." But I say, "How can you show me your faith if you don’t have good deeds? I will show you my faith by my good deeds."

    24 So you see, we are shown to be right with God by what we do, not by faith alone.

  5. NKJV Nova Versão King James

    14 Matt. 7:21–23, 26; 21:28–32What doesit profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him? 17 Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

    18 But someone will say, "You have faith, and I have works." Col. 1:6; 1 Thess. 1:3; Heb. 6:10Show me your faith without your works, (Gal. 5:6); James 3:13and I will show you my faith by my works. 24 You see then that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only.

  6. NASB New American Standard Bible 2020

    14 What use is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone says he has faith, but he has no works? Can 2:14 Lit thethat faith save him? 17 In the same way, faith also, if it has no works, is 2:17 Or dead by its own standardsdead, being by itself.

    18 But someone 2:18 Lit willmay well say, "You have faith and I have works; show me your faith without the works, and I will show you my faith by my works." 24 You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.

  7. CSB Christian Standard Bible

    14 What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but does not have works? Can such faith save him?

    17 In the same way faith, if it does not have works, is dead by itself.

    18 But someone will say, "You have faith, and I have works."  2:18 The quotation may end here or after v. 18b or v. 19. Show me your faith without works, and I will show you faith by my works.  2:18 Rm 3:28; Heb 11:33; Jms 3:13

    24 You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.

  8. DRA Douay-Rheims American 1899

    14 What shall it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but hath not works? Shall faith be able to save him? 17 So faith also, if it have not works, is dead in itself. 18 But some man will say: Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without works; and I will shew thee, by works, my faith. 24 Do you see that by works a man is justified; and not by faith only?

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