James 2:14, 17 – Geneva Bible
14 What
availeth it my brethren, though a man saith, he hath faith, when he
hath no works? can that faith save him?
17 Even
so the faith, if it have no works, is dead in itself.
Lord, help me to
understand Your words this morning, amen
Brethren:
Faith without works is a
dead faith. How can one say that they much faith if they don do the
works of charity that accompany faith? To walk the walk one must do
the works as given unto us by God, to wit; walk justly, show kindness
and walk humbly with our Creator. - RP Woitowitz
“It is not though he have faith, but though he say, I have
faith. Here therefore true living faith is meant. But in other parts
of the argument the apostle speaks of a dead imaginary faith. He does
not therefore teach that true faith can, but that it cannot, subsist
without works. Nor does he oppose faith to works, but that empty name
of faith to real faith working by love. Can that faith which is
without works save him? No more than it can profit his neighbor. The
faith that does not produce works of charity and mercy is without the
living principle which animates all true faith, that is, love to God
and love to man. They had faith, such as a man has who credits a
well-circumstanced relation because it has all the appearance of
truth; but they had nothing of that faith that a sinner, convinced of
his sinfulness, God's purity, and the strictness of the Divine laws,
is obliged to exert in the Lord Jesus, in order to be saved from his
sins.” - Adam Clark
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