Yakobus 2:22

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru

Kamu lihat, bahwa iman bekerjasama dengan perbuatan-perbuatan dan oleh perbuatan-perbuatan itu iman menjadi sempurna.

Parallel Translations

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari
Kamu lihat, bahwa iman bekerjasama dengan perbuatan-perbuatan dan oleh perbuatan-perbuatan itu iman menjadi sempurna.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka nyatalah kepadamu bahwa iman beserta dengan perbuatannya itu sudah bekerja bersama-sama, sehingga oleh sebab segala perbuatan itu imannya itu sudah menjadi sempurna.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Seest thou: or, Thou seest

faith: James 2:18, Galatians 5:6, Hebrews 11:17-19

faith made: 1 John 2:5, 1 John 4:17, 1 John 4:18

Reciprocal: Genesis 22:12 - now Deuteronomy 4:9 - keep thy soul John 8:39 - If Romans 2:10 - to every James 2:24 - General James 2:25 - justified

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Seest thou how faith wrought with his works,.... Not to justify him before God; for neither faith nor works are ever said in Scripture to justify any man; but his faith being of the right kind, a faith which works by love, it put him upon doing this work, and many others; for this was done in faith, Hebrews 11:17 as all good works are, which are properly such; and where there is true faith, it will influence and engage a man to do good works, as it did Abraham.

And by works was faith made perfect? not with an absolute perfection; for though Abraham's faith was very great, yet there were things lacking in it, and he had his fits and times of unbelief; and had he lived till now, his faith, in this sense, would not have been perfect; and he would have had reason to have used the apostle's petition, Luke 17:5 much less would it have been made thus perfect by works; but the sense is, that hereby his faith was declared to be sincere, unfeigned, true, and genuine; just as love is said to be perfected, 1 John 4:17.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Seest thou - Margin, “Thou seest.” Either rendering is correct, and the sense is the same. The apostle means to say that this was so plain that they could not but see it.

How faith wrought with his works - συνήργει sunērgei. Cooperated with. The meaning of the word is, “to work together with anyone; to co operate,” 1 Corinthians 16:16; 2 Corinthians 6:1; then to aid, or help, Mark 16:20; to contribute to the production of any result, where two or more persons or agents are united. Compare Romans 8:28. The idea here is, that the result in the case of Abraham, that is, his salvation, or his religion, was secured, not by one of these things alone, but that both contributed to it. The result which was reached, to wit, his acceptance with God, could not have been obtained by either one of them separately, but both, in some sense, entered into it. The apostle does not say that, in regard to the merit which justifies, they came in for an equal share, for he makes no affirmation on that point; he does not deny that in the sight of God, who foresees and knows all things, he was regarded as a justified man the moment he believed, but he looks at the result as it was, at Abraham as he appeared under the trial of his faith, and says that in that result there was to be seen the co-operation of faith and good works. Both contributed to the end, as they do now in all cases where there is true religion.

(By the somewhat unhappy term “merit,” the author clearly means nothing more than “principle,” as is obvious from his acute and evangelical comment on the verse; as well as from the admirable reconciliation of Paul and James below.)

And by works was faith made perfect - Made complete, finished, or entire. It was so carried out as to show its legitimate and fair results. This does not mean that the faith in itself was defective before this, and that the defect was remedied by good works; or that there is any deficiency in what the right kind of faith can do in the matter of justification, which is to be helped out by good works; but that there was that kind of completion which a thing has when it is fully developed, or is fairly carried out.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 22. Seest thou how faith wrought — Here is a proof that faith cannot exist without being active in works of righteousness. His faith in God would have been of no avail to him, had it not been manifested by works; for by works - by his obedience to the commands of God, his faith was made perfect - it dictated obedience, he obeyed; and thus faith ετελειωθη, had its consummation. Even true faith will soon die, if its possessor do not live in the spirit of obedience.