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James 2:17Jas.2.17

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

KJV

Greek original

Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Il en est ainsi de la foi: si elle n'a pas les oeuvres, elle est morte en elle-même.

KJV

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

Patristic reading

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  • Fulgentius of Ruspe

    On the Remission of Sins Book Two

    rred by immoral behavior. Thus, just as the blessed James declares that faith without works is dead (James 2:17), Paul also confirms in his preaching that everything not from faith is sin (Romans 14:23). Chapter Two Now, as we receive the illumination from the true light, which…
  • Various

    Patrologia Latina Vol. 96 (Migne)

    . JACOBI APOSTOLI. INTERROGATIO LXXVII. Quomodo Jacobus dicat, Fides sine operibus mortua est (Jac. II, 17, 20, 26) : cum e contrario Paulus videatur dicere, Ei vero qui non operatur, credenti [Col. 0701C] autem in eum qui justificat impium, reputatur fides ejus ad justiti…
  • Various

    Patrologia Latina Vol. 134 (Migne)

    verbo tenus tenetur, sed quae operibus adimpletur, quia fides sine operibus mortua est in semetipsa (Jac. II, 17, 20, 26) . Sequitur: Revelatur enim ira Dei de coelo super omnem impietatem et injustitiam hominum. Dixerat superius revelari justo per Evangelium justitiam Dei: conse…

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