Parallel Verses
- The Message - Dear friends, do you think you’ll get anywhere in this if you learn all the right words but never do anything? Does merely talking about faith indicate that a person really has it? For instance, you come upon an old friend dressed in rags and half-starved and say, “Good morning, friend! Be clothed in Christ! Be filled with the Holy Spirit!” and walk off without providing so much as a coat or a cup of soup—where does that get you? Isn’t it obvious that God-talk without God-acts is outrageous nonsense?
- 新标点和合本 - 我的弟兄们，若有人说自己有信心，却没有行为，有什么益处呢？这信心能救他吗？
- 和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 我的弟兄们，若有人说自己有信心，却没有行为，有什么益处呢？这信心能救他吗？
- 和合本2010（神版-简体） - 我的弟兄们，若有人说自己有信心，却没有行为，有什么益处呢？这信心能救他吗？
- 当代译本 - 我的弟兄姊妹，如果有人自称有信心，却没有行为，有什么用呢？这种信心能够救他吗？
- 圣经新译本 - 我的弟兄们，人若说他有信心，却没有行为，有什么益处呢？这信心能救他吗？
- 中文标准译本 - 我的弟兄们，如果有人说自己有信仰，但却没有行为，这有什么好处呢？难道这种信仰能救他吗？
- 现代标点和合本 - 我的弟兄们，若有人说自己有信心，却没有行为，有什么益处呢？这信心能救他吗？
- 和合本（拼音版） - 我的弟兄们，若有人说自己有信心，却没有行为，有什么益处呢？这信心能救他吗？
- New International Version - What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them?
- New International Reader's Version - Suppose a person claims to have faith but doesn’t act on their faith. My brothers and sisters, can this kind of faith save them?
- English Standard Version - What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him?
- New Living Translation - What good is it, dear brothers and sisters, if you say you have faith but don’t show it by your actions? Can that kind of faith save anyone?
- 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?
- New American Standard Bible - What use is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone says he has faith, but he has no works? Can that faith save him?
- New King James Version - What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him?
- Amplified 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.]
- American Standard Version - What doth it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but have not works? can that faith save him?
- King James Version - What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?
- 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?
- World English Bible - What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?
- 新標點和合本 - 我的弟兄們，若有人說自己有信心，卻沒有行為，有甚麼益處呢？這信心能救他嗎？
- 和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 我的弟兄們，若有人說自己有信心，卻沒有行為，有甚麼益處呢？這信心能救他嗎？
- 和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 我的弟兄們，若有人說自己有信心，卻沒有行為，有甚麼益處呢？這信心能救他嗎？
- 當代譯本 - 我的弟兄姊妹，如果有人自稱有信心，卻沒有行為，有什麼用呢？這種信心能夠救他嗎？
- 聖經新譯本 - 我的弟兄們，人若說他有信心，卻沒有行為，有甚麼益處呢？這信心能救他嗎？
- 呂振中譯本 - 我的弟兄們，若有人說他有信心，卻沒有行為，有甚麼益處呢？難道這信心能救他麼？
- 中文標準譯本 - 我的弟兄們，如果有人說自己有信仰，但卻沒有行為，這有什麼好處呢？難道這種信仰能救他嗎？
- 現代標點和合本 - 我的弟兄們，若有人說自己有信心，卻沒有行為，有什麼益處呢？這信心能救他嗎？
- 文理和合譯本 - 我兄弟乎、人若自謂有信而無行、何益之有、信能救之乎、
- 文理委辦譯本 - 兄弟乎、人言信主而不行善、何益之有、第信不行、豈能得救乎、
- 施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 兄弟乎、人自言有信而無行、何益之有、信能救之乎、
- 吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 兄弟乎、或曰我有信德；苟無善行、亦有何益？徒信詎有濟乎？
- Nueva Versión Internacional - Hermanos míos, ¿de qué le sirve a uno alegar que tiene fe, si no tiene obras? ¿Acaso podrá salvarlo esa fe?
- 현대인의 성경 - 형제 여러분, 믿음이 있다고 하면서 실천하지 않으면 무슨 소용이 있습니까? 그런 믿음으로 구원을 받을 수 있겠습니까?
- Новый Русский Перевод - Братья мои, какая польза, если человек говорит, что имеет веру, но дел не имеет? Может ли такая вера спасти его?
- Восточный перевод - Братья мои, какая польза, если человек говорит, что имеет веру, но дел не имеет? Может ли такая вера спасти его?
- Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Братья мои, какая польза, если человек говорит, что имеет веру, но дел не имеет? Может ли такая вера спасти его?
- Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Братья мои, какая польза, если человек говорит, что имеет веру, но дел не имеет? Может ли такая вера спасти его?
- La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Mes frères et sœurs, à quoi servirait-il à quelqu’un de dire qu’il a la foi s’il ne le démontre pas par ses actes ? Une telle foi peut-elle le sauver ?
- リビングバイブル - 愛する皆さん。自分には信仰があると言っても、それを行動で表さなかったら、どうしてその信仰を実証できるでしょう。そのような信仰が、人を救うことができるでしょうか。
- Nestle Aland 28 - Τί τὸ ὄφελος, ἀδελφοί μου, ἐὰν πίστιν λέγῃ τις ἔχειν, ἔργα δὲ μὴ ἔχῃ; μὴ δύναται ἡ πίστις σῶσαι αὐτόν;
- unfoldingWord® Greek New Testament - τί τὸ ὄφελος, ἀδελφοί μου, ἐὰν πίστιν λέγῃ τις, ἔχειν ἔργα, δὲ μὴ ἔχῃ? μὴ δύναται ἡ πίστις σῶσαι αὐτόν?
- Nova Versão Internacional - De que adianta, meus irmãos, alguém dizer que tem fé, se não tem obras? Acaso a fé pode salvá-lo?
- Hoffnung für alle - Liebe Brüder und Schwestern! Welchen Wert hat es, wenn jemand behauptet, an Christus zu glauben, aber an seinen Taten ist das nicht zu erkennen? Kann ihn ein solcher Glaube vor Gottes Urteil retten?
- Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Anh chị em thân yêu, nếu anh chị em bảo mình có đức tin mà không chứng tỏ bằng hành động thì có ích gì không? Đức tin ấy chẳng cứu được ai.
- พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - พี่น้องทั้งหลาย ถ้าคนหนึ่งอ้างว่ามีความเชื่อแต่ไม่สำแดงเป็นการกระทำจะมีประโยชน์อะไร? ความเชื่อแบบนี้จะช่วยเขาให้รอดได้หรือ?
- พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - พี่น้องทั้งหลาย จะมีประโยชน์อะไรถ้ามีคนพูดว่า เขามีความเชื่อ แต่ไม่มีการกระทำแสดงให้เห็น ความเชื่อนั้นช่วยให้เขารอดพ้นได้หรือ
Cross Reference
- 1 Corinthians 16:22 - If anyone won’t love the Master, throw him out. Make room for the Master!
- Jeremiah 7:8 - “‘Get smart! Your leaders are handing you a pack of lies, and you’re swallowing them! Use your heads! Do you think you can rob and murder, have sex with the neighborhood wives, tell lies nonstop, worship the local gods, and buy every novel religious commodity on the market—and then march into this Temple, set apart for my worship, and say, “We’re safe!” thinking that the place itself gives you a license to go on with all this outrageous sacrilege? A cave full of criminals! Do you think you can turn this Temple, set apart for my worship, into something like that? Well, think again. I’ve got eyes in my head. I can see what’s going on.’” God’s Decree!
- Romans 2:25 - Circumcision, the surgical ritual that marks you as a Jew, is great if you live in accord with God’s law. But if you don’t, it’s worse than not being circumcised. The reverse is also true: The uncircumcised who keep God’s ways are as good as the circumcised—in fact, better. Better to keep God’s law uncircumcised than break it circumcised. Don’t you see: It’s not the cut of a knife that makes a Jew. You become a Jew by who you are. It’s the mark of God on your heart, not of a knife on your skin, that makes a Jew. And recognition comes from God, not legalistic critics. * * *
- 1 Timothy 1:5 - The whole point of what we’re urging is simply love—love uncontaminated by self-interest and counterfeit faith, a life open to God. Those who fail to keep to this point soon wander off into dead ends of gossip. They set themselves up as experts on religious issues, but haven’t the remotest idea of what they’re holding forth with such imposing eloquence.
- James 2:18 - I can already hear one of you agreeing by saying, “Sounds good. You take care of the faith department, I’ll handle the works department.” Not so fast. You can no more show me your works apart from your faith than I can show you my faith apart from my works. Faith and works, works and faith, fit together hand in glove.
- Galatians 5:13 - It is absolutely clear that God has called you to a free life. Just make sure that you don’t use this freedom as an excuse to do whatever you want to do and destroy your freedom. Rather, use your freedom to serve one another in love; that’s how freedom grows. For everything we know about God’s Word is summed up in a single sentence: Love others as you love yourself. That’s an act of true freedom. If you bite and ravage each other, watch out—in no time at all you will be annihilating each other, and where will your precious freedom be then?
- Titus 3:8 - I want you to put your foot down. Take a firm stand on these matters so that those who have put their trust in God will concentrate on the essentials that are good for everyone. Stay away from mindless, pointless quarreling over genealogies and fine print in the law code. That gets you nowhere. Warn a quarrelsome person once or twice, but then be done with him. It’s obvious that such a person is out of line, rebellious against God. By persisting in divisiveness he cuts himself off. * * *
- Hebrews 11:17 - By faith, Abraham, at the time of testing, offered Isaac back to God. Acting in faith, he was as ready to return the promised son, his only son, as he had been to receive him—and this after he had already been told, “Your descendants shall come from Isaac.” Abraham figured that if God wanted to, he could raise the dead. In a sense, that’s what happened when he received Isaac back, alive from off the altar.
- 1 Corinthians 13:2 - If I speak God’s Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, “Jump,” and it jumps, but I don’t love, I’m nothing.
- 1 Corinthians 13:3 - If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don’t love, I’ve gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I’m bankrupt without love. Love never gives up. Love cares more for others than for self. Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have. Love doesn’t strut, Doesn’t have a swelled head, Doesn’t force itself on others, Isn’t always “me first,” Doesn’t fly off the handle, Doesn’t keep score of the sins of others, Doesn’t revel when others grovel, Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth, Puts up with anything, Trusts God always, Always looks for the best, Never looks back, But keeps going to the end.
- Hebrews 13:9 - Don’t be lured away from him by the latest speculations about him. The grace of Christ is the only good ground for life. Products named after Christ don’t seem to do much for those who buy them.
- Hebrews 11:7 - By faith, Noah built a ship in the middle of dry land. He was warned about something he couldn’t see, and acted on what he was told. The result? His family was saved. His act of faith drew a sharp line between the evil of the unbelieving world and the rightness of the believing world. As a result, Noah became intimate with God.
- Hebrews 11:8 - By an act of faith, Abraham said yes to God’s call to travel to an unknown place that would become his home. When he left he had no idea where he was going. By an act of faith he lived in the country promised him, lived as a stranger camping in tents. Isaac and Jacob did the same, living under the same promise. Abraham did it by keeping his eye on an unseen city with real, eternal foundations—the City designed and built by God.
- 2 Peter 1:5 - So don’t lose a minute in building on what you’ve been given, complementing your basic faith with good character, spiritual understanding, alert discipline, passionate patience, reverent wonder, warm friendliness, and generous love, each dimension fitting into and developing the others. With these qualities active and growing in your lives, no grass will grow under your feet, no day will pass without its reward as you mature in your experience of our Master Jesus. Without these qualities you can’t see what’s right before you, oblivious that your old sinful life has been wiped off the books.
- James 1:22 - Don’t fool yourself into thinking that you are a listener when you are anything but, letting the Word go in one ear and out the other. Act on what you hear! Those who hear and don’t act are like those who glance in the mirror, walk away, and two minutes later have no idea who they are, what they look like.
- James 1:25 - But whoever catches a glimpse of the revealed counsel of God—the free life!—even out of the corner of his eye, and sticks with it, is no distracted scatterbrain but a man or woman of action. That person will find delight and affirmation in the action.
- Matthew 7:21 - “Knowing the correct password—saying ‘Master, Master,’ for instance—isn’t going to get you anywhere with me. What is required is serious obedience—doing what my Father wills. I can see it now—at the Final Judgment thousands strutting up to me and saying, ‘Master, we preached the Message, we bashed the demons, our super-spiritual projects had everyone talking.’ And do you know what I am going to say? ‘You missed the boat. All you did was use me to make yourselves important. You don’t impress me one bit. You’re out of here.’
- Matthew 7:26 - “But if you just use my words in Bible studies and don’t work them into your life, you are like a stupid carpenter who built his house on the sandy beach. When a storm rolled in and the waves came up, it collapsed like a house of cards.”