James 2:14 — Compare All Translations

English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young

What [is] the profit, my brethren, if faith, any one may speak of having, and works he may not have? is that faith able to save him?

English ASV

What doth it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but have not works? can that faith save him?

English Amplified

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]?

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

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]?

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

What good is it, my brothers, if someone claims to have faith, but has no deeds? Can such faith save him?

English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible

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

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

What [is] the profit, my brethren, if any one say he have faith, but have not works? can faith save him?

English EASY 2024

My Christian friends, you say that you believe in God. Then you must show this in the things that you do. If not, your faith will not help you. It will not save you.

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

My brothers and sisters, if someone says they have faith but do nothing, that faith is worth nothing. Faith like that cannot save anyone.

What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him?

English GNT (Good News Translation)

My friends, what good is it for one of you to say that you have faith if your actions do not prove it? Can that faith save you?

English God's Word - GW 1995

My brothers and sisters, what good does it do if someone claims to have faith but doesn't do any good things? Can this kind of faith save him?

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith, but does not have works? Can his faith save him?

English KJV 1611

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

English LSB

What use is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but he has no works? Can that faith save him?

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

What does it profit, my brothers, if a man says he has faith but has no works? Can faith save him?

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

What use is it, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but he has no works? Can that faith save him?

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him?

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

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

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

My brothers and sisters, what good is it if people claim they have faith but don't act like it? Can that kind of faith save them?

English NIV

What good is it, my brothers, if a man claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save him?

English NKJ 1982

What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him?

English NLT

Dear brothers and sisters, what's the use of saying you have faith if you don't prove it by your actions? That kind of faith can't save anyone.

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if you say you have faith but do not have works? Can faith save you?

English Passion Translation Bible 2020

My dear brothers and sisters, what good is it if someone claims to have faith but demonstrates no good works to prove it? How could this kind of faith save anyone?

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

What does it profit, my brethren, if a man says he has faith but has not works? Can his faith save him?

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

Dear brothers, what's the use of saying that you have faith and are Christians if you aren't proving it by helping others? Will that kind of faith save anyone?

English Tyndale 1537

What availeth it my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, when he hath no deeds? Can faith save him?

James 2:14 — Compare Translations