James 2:22
Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?
KJV
βλέπεις ὅτι ἡ πίστις συνήργει τοῖς ἔργοις αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐκ τῶν ἔργων ἡ πίστις ἐτελειώθη,
Greek NT
Vides quoniam fides cooperabatur operibus illius : et ex operibus fides consummata est ?
Vulgate
Thou seest that faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect;
ASV
Seest thou that faith did cooperate with his works and by works faith was made perfect?
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
10 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
βλέπω
blepo
verb · 132×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
πίστις
pistis
noun · 243×
συνεργέω
sunergeo
verb · 5×
τελειόω
teleioo
verb · 23×
ἐκ
ek
preposition · 915×
ἔργον
ergon
noun · 169×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὅτι
oti
conjunction · 1299×
Historic Christian voices
6 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§162Faith is an entirely free gift that God makes to man. We can lose this priceless gift, as St. Paul indicated to St. Timothy: "Wage the good warfare, holding faith and a good conscience. By rejecting conscience, certain persons have made shipwreck of their faith."44 To live, grow and persevere in the faith until the end we must nourish it with the word of God; we must beg the Lo…
Having therefore been thus justified and made the friends and domestics of God, advancing from virtue to virtue, they are renewed, as the Apostle says, day by day; that is, by mortifying the members of their own flesh and by presenting them as instruments of justice unto sanctification, they through the observance of the commandments of God and of the Church, faith co-operating…
But does not God command us to do good works before we are sanctified? Most certainly. And these are what we call works meet for repentance. These are necessary before and after justification. But they are not the ground of justification or sanctification. They are the fruits, not the root. The root is faith — faith working by love.
Cross-references
- 1John 2:5 — But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.
- 1John 2:5 — But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.
- 1John 4:17 — Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
- 1Thess 1:3 — Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;
- Deut 4:9 — Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons,
- Gal 5:6 — For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.
- Heb 11:17 — By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son,
- Jas 2:25 — Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way?
- John 8:39 — They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham’s children, ye would do the works of Abraham.
- Jude 1:20 — But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
- Rom 2:10 — But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile: