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The most popular Bible verses from James 2

Found 26 Verses

James 2:14

Bible Rank: 160

What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if people claim to have faith but have no deeds? Can such faith save them? NIV

What is the use (profit), my brethren, for anyone to profess to have faith if he has no [good] works [to show for it]? Can [such] faith save [his soul]? AMP

What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him? KJV

James 2:3

Bible Rank: 279

If you show special attention to the one wearing fine clothes and say, "Here's a good seat for you," but say to the one who is poor, "You stand there" or "Sit on the floor by my feet," NIV

And you pay special attention to the one who wears the splendid clothes and say to him, Sit here in this preferable seat! while you tell the poor [man], Stand there! or, Sit there on the floor at my feet! AMP

And ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing, and say unto him, Sit thou here in a good place; and say to the poor, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool: KJV

James 2:19

Bible Rank: 431

You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that – and shudder. NIV

You believe that God is one; you do well. So do the demons believe and shudder [in terror and horror such as make a man's hair stand on end and contract the surface of his skin]! AMP

Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble. KJV

James 2:10

Bible Rank: 566

For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it. NIV

For whosoever keeps the Law [as a] whole but stumbles and offends in one [single instance] has become guilty of [breaking] all of it. AMP

For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. KJV

James 2:1

Bible Rank: 579

My brothers and sisters, believers in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ must not show favoritism. NIV

MY BRETHREN, pay no servile regard to people [show no prejudice, no partiality]. Do not [attempt to] hold and practice the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ [the Lord] of glory [together with snobbery]! AMP

My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons. KJV

James 2:17

Bible Rank: 852

In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead. NIV

So also faith, if it does not have works (deeds and actions of obedience to back it up), by itself is destitute of power (inoperative, dead). AMP

Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone. KJV

James 2:26

Bible Rank: 1,204

As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead. NIV

For as the human body apart from the spirit is lifeless, so faith apart from [its] works of obedience is also dead. AMP

For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. KJV

James 2:4

Bible Rank: 1,366

Have you not discriminated among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts? NIV

Are you not discriminating among your own and becoming critics and judges with wrong motives? AMP

Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts? KJV

James 2:24

Bible Rank: 1,509

You see that people are justified by what they do and not by faith alone. NIV

You see that a man is justified (pronounced righteous before God) through what he does and not alone through faith [through works of obedience as well as by what he believes]. AMP

Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only. KJV

James 2:8

Bible Rank: 1,654

If you really keep the royal law found in Scripture, "Love your neighbor as yourself," you are doing right. NIV

If indeed you [really] fulfill the royal Law in accordance with the Scripture, You shall love your neighbor as [you love] yourself, you do well. [Lev. 19:18.] AMP

If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well: KJV