Verse List for YAC 2:17

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OET (OET-RV) In other words, faith without the corresponding lifestyle is just dead.

OET-LV Thus also the faith, if not it _may _be _having works, dead it _is by itself.

ULT Thus also the faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

UST Similarly, if you just say that you believe in Jesus but you do not do anything that demonstrates that, you do not really believe in Jesus.

BSB So too, faith by itself, if it does not result in action,[fn] is dead.

MSB So too, faith by itself, if it does not result in action,[fn] is dead.

BLB So also, faith by itself if it has not works, is dead.

AICNT In the same way, faith also, if it does not have works, is dead by itself.

OEB In just the same way faith, if not followed by actions, is, by itself, a lifeless thing.

WEBBE & WMBB Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself.

MSG ^(14-17)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?

NET So also faith, if it does not have works, is dead being by itself.

LSV So also faith, if it may not have works, is dead by itself.

FBV By itself even your trust-based faith in God is dead and worthless if you don't actually do what's good and right.

TCNT In the same way faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

T4T Similarly, those who do not do good things to help others, what they have said about their believing in Christ is as useless [MET] as a dead person is useless. They do not really believe in Christ.

LEB Thus also faith, if it does not have works, is dead by itself.

BBE Even so faith without works is dead.

Moff So faith, unless it has deeds, is dead in itself.

Wymth So also faith, if it is unaccompanied by obedience, has no life in it—so long as it stands alone.

ASV Even so faith, if it have not works, is dead in itself.

DRA So faith also, if it have not works, is dead in itself.

YLT so also the faith, if it may not have works, is dead by itself.

Drby So also faith, if it have not works, is dead by itself.

RV Even so faith, if it have not works, is dead in itself.

SLT So also faith, if it have not works, is dead by itself.

Wbstr Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.

KJB-1769 Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
(Even so faith, if it hath/has not works, is dead, being alone.)

KJB-1611 Euen so faith, if it hath not works, is dead being [fn]alone.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation and footnotes)

Bshps Euen so, fayth, yf it haue not deedes, is dead in it selfe:
(Even so, faith, if it have not deeds, is dead in itself:)

Gnva Euen so the faith, if it haue no woorkes, is dead in it selfe.
(Even so the faith, if it have no works, is dead in itself.)

Cvdl Euen so faith, yf it haue no dedes, is deed in it selfe.
(Even so faith, if it have no deeds, is deed in itself.)

TNT Even so fayth yf it have no dedes is deed in it selfe.
(Even so faith if it have no deeds is deed in itself.)

Wycl So also feith, if it hath not werkis, is deed in it silf.
(So also faith, if it hath/has not works, is deed in itself.)

Luth Also auch der Glaube, wenn er nicht Werke hat, ist er tot an ihm selber.
(So also the/of_the faith, when he not work has, is he dead at/to him himself.)

ClVg Sic et fides, si non habeat opera, mortua est in semetipsa.
(So and faith, when/but_if not/no have works, dead it_is in/into/on semetipsa.)

SR-GNT Οὕτως καὶ ἡ πίστις, ἐὰν μὴ ἔχῃ ἔργα, νεκρά ἐστιν καθʼ ἑαυτήν. ‡

UGNT οὕτως καὶ ἡ πίστις, ἐὰν μὴ ἔχῃ ἔργα, νεκρά ἐστιν καθ’ ἑαυτήν.

SBL-GNT οὕτως καὶ ἡ πίστις, ἐὰν μὴ ⸂ἔχῃ ἔργα⸃, νεκρά ἐστιν καθʼ ἑαυτήν.

RP-GNT Οὕτως καὶ ἡ πίστις, ἐὰν μὴ ἔργα ἔχῃ, νεκρά ἐστιν καθ' ἑαυτήν.

TC-GNT οὕτω καὶ ἡ πίστις, ἐὰν μὴ [fn]ἔργα ἔχῃ, νεκρά ἐστι καθ᾽ ἑαυτήν.