James 2:17

James 2:17
Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself.

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Genesis 15:6
He believed in Yahweh, who credited it to him for righteousness.

Deuteronomy 6:25
It shall be righteousness to us, if we observe to do all these commandments before Yahweh our God, as he has commanded us.”

Deuteronomy 15:9
Beware that there not be a wicked thought in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand,” and your eye be evil against your poor brother and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.

Deuteronomy 15:10
You shall surely give, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him, because it is for this thing Yahweh your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you put your hand to.

Deuteronomy 24:13
You shall surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his garment and bless you. It shall be righteousness to you before Yahweh your God.

Psalms 106:30
Then Phinehas stood up and executed judgment, so the plague was stopped.

Psalms 106:31
That was credited to him for righteousness, for all generations to come.

Psalms 112:9
He has dispersed, he has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn will be exalted with honor.

Isaiah 58:8
Then your light will break out as the morning, and your healing will appear quickly; then your righteousness shall go before you, and Yahweh’s glory will be your rear guard.

Daniel 4:27
Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor. Perhaps there may be a lengthening of your tranquility.”

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1 Kings 18:43
He said to his servant, “Go up now and look toward the sea.” He went up and looked, then said, “There is nothing.” He said, “Go again” seven times.

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Psalms 60:12
Through God we will do valiantly, for it is he who will tread down our adversaries.

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Psalms 106:12
Then they believed his words. They sang his praise.

Psalms 106:13
They soon forgot his works. They didn’t wait for his counsel,

Luke 8:13
Those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; but these have no root. They believe for a while, then fall away in time of temptation.

John 2:23
Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in his name, observing his signs which he did.

John 8:31
Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, “If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples.

John 8:32
You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

Acts 8:13
Simon himself also believed. Being baptized, he continued with Philip. Seeing signs and great miracles occurring, he was amazed.

1 Corinthians 15:2
by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.

1 Corinthians 15:14
If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith also is in vain.

2 Corinthians 6:1
Working together, we entreat also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain.

Galatians 3:4
Did you suffer so many things in vain, if it is indeed in vain?

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Proverbs 10:27
The fear of Yahweh prolongs days, but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.

Proverbs 11:19
He who is truly righteous gets life. He who pursues evil gets death.

Proverbs 12:28
In the way of righteousness is life; in its path there is no death.

Proverbs 13:14
The teaching of the wise is a spring of life, to turn from the snares of death.

Proverbs 19:16
He who keeps the commandment keeps his soul, but he who is contemptuous in his ways shall die.

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Isaiah 29:13
The Lord said, “Because this people draws near with their mouth and honors me with their lips, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught;

Matthew 15:8
‘These people draw near to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.

Titus 1:14
not paying attention to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.

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Habakkuk 2:4
Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.

Luke 8:18
Be careful therefore how you hear. For whoever has, to him will be given; and whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he thinks he has.”

Luke 8:42
for he had an only born daughter, about twelve years of age, and she was dying. But as he went, the multitudes pressed against him.

Ephesians 2:8
for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

Ephesians 2:9
not of works, that no one would boast.

Ephesians 2:10
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

Hebrews 11:31
By faith Rahab the prostitute didn’t perish with those who were disobedient, having received the spies in peace.

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Matthew 7:16
By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns or figs from thistles?

Matthew 7:17
Even so, every good tree produces good fruit, but the corrupt tree produces evil fruit.

Matthew 7:18
A good tree can’t produce evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree produce good fruit.

Matthew 7:19
Every tree that doesn’t grow good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

Matthew 7:20
Therefore by their fruits you will know them.

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Matthew 7:23
Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’

Matthew 10:1
He called to himself his twelve disciples, and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every sickness.

Romans 2:13
For it isn’t the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified

Philippians 4:9
Do the things which you learned, received, heard, and saw in me, and the God of peace will be with you.

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Matthew 9:22
But Jesus, turning around and seeing her, said, “Daughter, cheer up! Your faith has made you well.” And the woman was made well from that hour.

Mark 5:34
He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace, and be cured of your disease.”

Mark 10:52
Jesus said to him, “Go your way. Your faith has made you well.” Immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus on the way.

Luke 7:50
He said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you. Go in peace.”

Luke 8:48
He said to her, “Daughter, cheer up. Your faith has made you well. Go in peace.”

Luke 18:42
Jesus said to him, “Receive your sight. Your faith has healed you.”

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Ezekiel 18:11
or who does not do any of those things but has eaten at the mountain shrines and defiled his neighbor’s wife,

Matthew 7:21
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

Matthew 7:22
Many will tell me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in your name, in your name cast out demons, and in your name do many mighty works?’

Matthew 7:25
The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it didn’t fall, for it was founded on the rock.

Luke 11:28
But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”

John 13:17
If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

John 15:14
You are my friends if you do whatever I command you.

James 1:23
For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror;

James 1:25
But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom and continues, not being a hearer who forgets but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.

1 John 3:22
so whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.

1 John 5:3
For this is loving God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.

Revelation 22:14
Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.

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John 8:41
You do the works of your father.” They said to him, “We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God.”

John 8:42
Therefore Jesus said to them, “If God were your father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven’t come of myself, but he sent me.

John 8:54
Jesus answered, “If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say that he is our God.

John 8:55
You have not known him, but I know him. If I said, ‘I don’t know him,’ I would be like you, a liar. But I know him and keep his word.

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Jeremiah 44:16
“As for the word that you have spoken to us in Yahweh’s name, we will not listen to you.

Ezekiel 33:32
Behold, you are to them as a very lovely song of one who has a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument; for they hear your words, but they don’t do them.

Matthew 11:23
You, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, you will go down to Hades. For if the mighty works had been done in Sodom which were done in you, it would have remained until today.

John 15:24
If I hadn’t done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn’t have had sin. But now they have seen and also hated both me and my Father.

Galatians 1:8
But even though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you any “good news” other than that which we preached to you, let him be cursed.

2 Timothy 3:5
holding a form of godliness but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.

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Luke 5:29
Levi made a great feast for him in his house. There was a great crowd of tax collectors and others who were reclining with them.

Luke 19:6
He hurried, came down, and received him joyfully.

Acts 16:34
He brought them up into his house and set food before them, and rejoiced greatly with all his household, having believed in God.

Romans 12:9
Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

Ephesians 4:15
but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him who is the head, Christ,

Philippians 1:9
This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment,

Philippians 1:10
so that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ,

Philippians 1:11
being filled with the fruits of righteousness which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

1 Thessalonians 4:9
But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,

1 Thessalonians 4:10
for indeed you do it toward all the brothers who are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, that you abound more and more;

1 Peter 1:22
Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,

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2 Corinthians 8:13
For this is not that others may be eased and you distressed,

2 Corinthians 8:14
but for equality. Your abundance at this present time supplies their lack, that their abundance also may become a supply for your lack, that there may be equality.

2 Corinthians 8:15
As it is written, “He who gathered much had nothing left over, and he who gathered little had no lack.”

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Proverbs 31:30
Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.

Proverbs 31:31
Give her of the fruit of her hands! Let her works praise her in the gates!

Matthew 25:36
I was naked and you clothed me. I was sick and you visited me. I was in prison and you came to me.’

Matthew 25:37
“Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you a drink?

Matthew 25:38
When did we see you as a stranger and take you in, or naked and clothe you?

Matthew 25:39
When did we see you sick or in prison and come to you?’

Matthew 26:11
For you always have the poor with you, but you don’t always have me.

John 12:8
For you always have the poor with you, but you don’t always have me.”

Acts 9:36
Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which when translated means Dorcas. This woman was full of good works and acts of mercy which she did.

2 Corinthians 9:12
For this service of giving that you perform not only makes up for lack among the saints, but abounds also through much giving of thanks to God,

2 Corinthians 9:13
seeing that through the proof given by this service, they glorify God for the obedience of your confession to the Good News of Christ and for the generosity of your contribution to them and to all,

2 Corinthians 9:14
while they themselves also, with supplication on your behalf, yearn for you by reason of the exceeding grace of God in you.

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Galatians 5:22
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

Galatians 5:23
gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

Galatians 5:24
Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

Galatians 5:25
If we live by the Spirit, let’s also walk by the Spirit.

Galatians 5:26
Let’s not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.

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Mark 10:21
Jesus looking at him loved him, and said to him, “One thing you lack. Go, sell whatever you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me, taking up the cross.”

1 Corinthians 13:13
But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

Galatians 5:13
For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom an an opportunity for the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

Ephesians 4:28
Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, producing with his hands something that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.

1 Timothy 5:6
But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives.

Titus 3:14
Let our people also learn to maintain good works to meet necessary needs, that they may not be unfruitful.

Philemon 1:6
that the fellowship of your faith may become effective in the knowledge of every good thing which is in us in Christ Jesus.

Philemon 1:7
For we have much joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.

1 Peter 4:10
As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.

2 Peter 1:8
For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to not be idle or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Jude 1:12
These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

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Isaiah 57:12
I will declare your righteousness; and as for your works, they will not benefit you.

Jeremiah 7:8
Behold, you trust in lying words that can’t profit.

John 6:63
It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

1 Timothy 4:8
For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now and of that which is to come.

Hebrews 13:9
Don’t be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by foods, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.

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Hebrews 9:17
For a will is in force where there has been death, for it is never in force while he who made it lives.

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James 1:2
Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,

James 1:4
Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

James 1:12
Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord promised to those who love him.

James 3:2
For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also.

James 3:13
Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom.

James 5:8
You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

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Job 31:19
if I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;

Job 31:20
if his heart hasn’t blessed me, if he hasn’t been warmed with my sheep’s fleece;

Ezekiel 18:7
and has not wronged any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has taken nothing by robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;

Mark 14:8
She has done what she could. She has anointed my body beforehand for the burying.

Luke 3:11
He answered them, “He who has two coats, let him give to him who has none. He who has food, let him do likewise.”

Luke 18:22
When Jesus heard these things, he said to him, “You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have and distribute it to the poor. Then you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.”

Acts 9:39
Peter got up and went with them. When he had come, they brought him into the upper room. All the widows stood by him weeping, and showing the tunics and other garments which Dorcas had made while she was with them.

Acts 20:35
In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

2 Corinthians 8:12
For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what you have, not according to what you don’t have.

Philippians 4:17
Not that I seek for the gift, but I seek for the fruit that increases to your account.

Hebrews 6:10
For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.

James 1:27
Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

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James 4:1
Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?

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James 4:2
You lust, and don’t have. You murder and covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask.

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2 John 1:1
The elder, to the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in truth, and not I only, but also all those who know the truth,

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3 John 1:1
The elder to Gaius the beloved, whom I love in truth.

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