Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
If it have not works (ean mh exh erga). Another condition of the third class with ean and mh and the present active subjunctive of exw, "if it keep on not having works."
In itself (kaq eauthn). In and of itself (according to itself), inwardly and outwardly dead (nekra). Same idiom in Acts 28:16; Romans 14:22. It is a dead faith.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing James 2:17:
Hebrews 6:1
1 Peter 1:3
Revelation 3:1
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