<p>2:14 <i>My brothers, what good is it if a man claims to have faith but has no works? Can that faith save him?</i>- James speaks of the man who says to his poor brother &lsquo;Be ye warmed and filled&rsquo; but does nothing about it practically. This, James says, is dead faith; faith without works is not faith. But the man said those words, so James&rsquo; logic goes, <i>in faith</i> that somehow the poor man would be helped. Yet he did nothing, and therefore his faith wasn&rsquo;t really faith; &ldquo;can <i>that</i> faith save him?&rdquo; (James 2:14 RV). There is true faith, and &lsquo;that&rsquo; kind of faith which only appears to be faith in the eyes of the person holding it.</p><p>A notable example of faith without works is then given in v.15,16. It ends with the challenge &quot;What does it profit&quot;- cp. v.14 &quot;What does it profit...though a man say he has faith, and have not works?&quot;.</p>