17 Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself.
Source Text Study
Relevant source witnesses currently attached to James 2:17. Some ancient sources use different book or verse structures, so availability notes call out gaps honestly instead of forcing five panels everywhere.
How to read this study data
Source panels are separated by tradition and license. Imported or dataset-backed morphology is stronger than generated or rule-aligned morphology, and editorial alignment notes explain source-structure exceptions without pretending to be ancient source text.
When a verse uses different numbering in a source tradition, Spirit Nation may show the closest mapped source reference and label it directly on the panel.
Coverage: New Testament
Greek New Testament source layer with imported morphology.
Οὕτω καὶ ἡ πίστις, ἐὰν μὴ ἔργα ἔχῃ, νεκρά ἐστι καθ᾿ ἑαυτήν.
Οὕτω
καὶ
ἡ
πίστις
ἐὰν
μὴ
ἔργα
ἔχῃ
νεκρά
ἐστι
καθ᾿
Coverage: New Testament sample / proof panel
Proof-of-flow source panel, not full coverage.
οὕτως καὶ ἡ πίστις, ἐὰν μὴ ἔχῃ ἔργα, νεκρά ἐστιν καθ’ ἑαυτήν.
καὶ
ἡ
ἐστιν
Coverage: New Testament
Ancient Syriac translation tradition. Text coverage is imported; word-level morphology is marked pending until a dedicated Syriac morphology source is attached.
ܗܟܢܐ ܐܦ ܗܝܡܢܘܬܐ ܕܠܐ ܥܒܕܐ ܡܝܬܐ ܗܝ ܒܠܚܘܕܝܗ
ܗܟܢܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܗܟܢܐ
- Transliteration
- hkn'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a
- Occurrences
- 220
ܐܦ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܐܦ
- Transliteration
- 'p
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review
- Occurrences
- 544
ܗܝܡܢܘܬܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܗܝܡܢܘܬܐ
- Transliteration
- hymnwt'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a
- Occurrences
- 65
ܕܠܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܕܠܐ
- Transliteration
- dl'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a; possible prefixed relative/genitive marker d-
- Occurrences
- 720
ܥܒܕܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܥܒܕܐ
- Transliteration
- 'bd'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a
- Occurrences
- 132
ܡܝܬܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܡܝܬܐ
- Transliteration
- myt'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a
- Occurrences
- 113
ܗܝ
- Confidence
- medium preliminary Syriac rule/lexicon alignment
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac lexicon alignment. Useful for search and first-pass study; review before labeling as verified scholarship.
- Lemma
- ܗܝ
- Transliteration
- hi
- Morphology
- pronoun/copula, feminine singular
- Gloss
- she, it, is
- Occurrences
- 403
ܒܠܚܘܕܝܗ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܒܠܚܘܕܝܗ
- Transliteration
- blhwdyh
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review; possible prefixed preposition b-
- Occurrences
- 2
Coverage: Bible and Apocrypha where imported
Latin textual tradition with GreLa-backed lemma/POS morphology for most tokens.
Sic et fides, si non habeat opera, mortua est in semetipsa.
sic
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- sic
- Transliteration
- sic
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adverb
- Occurrences
- 584
et
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- et
- Transliteration
- et
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adverb
- Gloss
- and
- Part of Speech
- conjunction
- Definition
- and, also, even
- Etymology
- Basic Latin coordinating conjunction.
- Occurrences
- 50526
fides
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- fides
- Transliteration
- fides
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 294
si
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- si
- Transliteration
- si
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: subordinating conjunction
- Occurrences
- 1970
non
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- non
- Transliteration
- non
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adverb
- Occurrences
- 7320
habeat
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- habeo
- Transliteration
- habeat
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 1641
opera
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- opus
- Transliteration
- opera
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 656
mortua
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- morior
- Transliteration
- mortua
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adjective
- Occurrences
- 600
est
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- sum
- Transliteration
- est
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 20614
in
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- in
- Transliteration
- in
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adposition/preposition
- Gloss
- in
- Part of Speech
- preposition
- Definition
- in, into, among, on
- Etymology
- Latin preposition used with ablative for location or with accusative for motion.
- Occurrences
- 22264
semet
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- sui
- Transliteration
- semet
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: pronoun
- Occurrences
- 1317
ipsam
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- ipse
- Transliteration
- ipsam
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: pronoun
- Occurrences
- 2134
Ranked cross references
Connections are ranked by community votes in the OpenBible.info cross-reference dataset (CC BY 4.0). They suggest related themes, words, events, or people; they are not automatic interpretations.
James 2:26
For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.
24 relevance votes1 Corinthians 13:13
But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.
10 relevance votesJames 2:14
What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?
10 relevance votes1 Timothy 1:5
But the goal of this command is love from a pure heart, a good conscience, and sincere faith,
8 relevance votes1 Thessalonians 1:3
remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Yeshua the Messiah, before our God and Father.
5 relevance votes1 Corinthians 13:3
If I give away all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.
0 relevance votes