'Works' in the Bible
What is the benefit, my fellow believers, if someone claims to have faith but has no [good] works [as evidence]? Can that [kind of] faith save him? [No, a mere claim of faith is not sufficient—genuine faith produces good works.]
So too, faith, if it does not have works [to back it up], is by itself dead [inoperative and ineffective].
But someone may say, “You [claim to] have faith and I have [good] works; show me your [alleged] faith without the works [if you can], and I will show you my faith by my works [that is, by what I do].”
But are you willing to recognize, you foolish [spiritually shallow] person, that faith without [good] works is useless?
Was our father Abraham not [shown to be] justified by works [of obedience which expressed his faith] when he offered Isaac his son on the altar [as a sacrifice to God]?
You see that [his] faith was working together with his works, and as a result of the works, his faith was completed [reaching its maturity when he expressed his faith through obedience].
You see that a man (believer) is justified by works and not by faith alone [that is, by acts of obedience a born-again believer reveals his faith].
For just as the [human] body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works [of obedience] is also dead.
Who among you is wise and intelligent? Let him by his good conduct show his [good] deeds with the gentleness and humility of true wisdom.
Related Words
Bible Theasaurus
- Deeds (447 instances)
- Employment (7 instances)
- Plant (133 instances)
- Workings (6 instances)
- Works (419 instances)
Reverse Interlinear
Energeo
Charash
Chashab
Machashabah
M@la'kah
Miqshah
`abad
`abad (Aramaic)
`abodah
Pala'
Pittuwach
Tuwshiyah
Dunamis
Ergazomai
Poieo
sunergos
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