Not on the actual claims, though the vocabulary overlaps in a way that has caused four centuries of Protestant nervousness.
James is not arguing that works earn salvation alongside faith, as if faith and works were two separate currencies you need both of. He is arguing that faith which produces nothing isn't the real thing. "What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?" (James 2:14). His test case is a man who claims faith and does nothing for a brother in need — James's point is that such a claim is empty, "dead in itself" (2:17). The word he presses is δεῖξόν — "show" (2:18): faith that can't be shown by anything is not being hidden, it's absent.
When James says "a man is justified... not only by faith" (2:24), the word for "justified" (δικαιοῦται) there functions closer to "shown to be righteous," vindicated in the visible, public sense — his proof text is Abraham offering Isaac, decades after Genesis 15 already counted his faith as righteousness. Paul, arguing against people who thought circumcision and law-keeping earned standing before God, uses "justified" to mean the initial declaration of righteousness, received by faith apart from those works. Different opponents, different angle of the same word.
James 2:22 states the relation plainly: "faith worked with his works, and by works faith was perfected." Faith is the root; works are what the root does when it's alive. Paul would not disagree — he writes of "faith working through love" elsewhere in his letters, though that text isn't in front of us here. The two are not competing accounts of how a person gets right with God; they're answering two different distortions — one of earning grace, one of pretending to have received it while it changes nothing.
Yes, a man will say, "You have faith, and I have works." Show me your faith without works, and I will show you my faith by my works.closest in meaning to what you asked
Greek Nestle 1904
ἀλλ’ ἐρεῖ τις Σὺ πίστιν ἔχεις, κἀγὼ ἔργα ἔχω· δεῖξόν μοι τὴν πίστιν σου χωρὶς τῶν ἔργων, κἀγώ σοι δείξω ἐκ τῶν ἔργων μου τὴν πίστιν.
- ἀλλ’ ἀλλά conjunction G235
- ἐρεῖ εἶπον verb · future active indicative, 3rd person singular G2046
- τις τὶς indefinite pronoun · nominative singular masculine G5100
- Σὺ σύ personal pronoun G4771
- πίστιν πίστις noun · accusative singular feminine G4102
- ἔχεις, ἔχω verb · present active indicative, 2nd person singular G2192
- κἀγὼ κἀγώ personal pronoun G2504
- ἔργα ἔργον noun · accusative plural neuter G2041
- ἔχω· ἔχω verb · present active indicative, 1st person singular G2192
- δεῖξόν δείκνυμι verb · aorist active imperative, 2nd person singular G1166
- μοι ἐγώ personal pronoun G1473
- τὴν ὁ article · accusative singular feminine G3588
Punctuation is editorial — the manuscripts carry none.
See also 5
- James 3:13 Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom.
- James 2:14 What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?
- 1 Timothy 1:5 But the goal of this command is love from a pure heart, a good conscience, and sincere faith,
- Galatians 5:6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision amounts to anything, but faith working through love.
- Titus 2:7 In all things show yourself an example of good works. In your teaching, show integrity, seriousness, incorruptibility,
What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?closest in meaning to what you asked
Greek Nestle 1904
Τί τὸ ὄφελος, ἀδελφοί μου, ἐὰν πίστιν λέγῃ τις ἔχειν ἔργα δὲ μὴ ἔχῃ; μὴ δύναται ἡ πίστις σῶσαι αὐτόν;
- Τί τίς interrogative pronoun · nominative singular neuter G5101
- τὸ ὁ article · nominative singular neuter G3588
- ὄφελος, ὄφελος noun · nominative singular neuter G3786
- ἀδελφοί ἀδελφός noun · vocative plural masculine G80
- μου, ἐγώ personal pronoun G1473
- ἐὰν ἐάν conditional G1437
- πίστιν πίστις noun · accusative singular feminine G4102
- λέγῃ λέγω verb · present active subjunctive, 3rd person singular G3004
- τις τὶς indefinite pronoun · nominative singular masculine G5100
- ἔχειν ἔχω verb · present active infinitive G2192
- ἔργα ἔργον noun · accusative plural neuter G2041
- δὲ δέ conjunction G1161
Punctuation is editorial — the manuscripts carry none.
See also 5
- Matthew 7:26 Everyone who hears these words of mine and doesn't do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand.
- Matthew 7:21 "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
- James 1:22 But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.
- Luke 6:49 But he who hears and doesn't do, is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream broke, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great."
- Titus 1:16 They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.
You see that faith worked with his works, and by works faith was perfected.closest in meaning to what you asked
Greek Nestle 1904
βλέπεις ὅτι ἡ πίστις συνήργει τοῖς ἔργοις αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐκ τῶν ἔργων ἡ πίστις ἐτελειώθη,
- βλέπεις βλέπω verb · present active indicative, 2nd person singular G991
- ὅτι ὅτι conjunction G3754
- ἡ ὁ article · nominative singular feminine G3588
- πίστις πίστις noun · nominative singular feminine G4102
- συνήργει συνεργέω verb · imperfect active indicative, 3rd person singular G4903
- τοῖς ὁ article · dative plural neuter G3588
- ἔργοις ἔργον noun · dative plural neuter G2041
- αὐτοῦ, αὐτός personal pronoun · genitive singular masculine G846
- καὶ καί conjunction G2532
- ἐκ ἐκ preposition G1537
- τῶν ὁ article · genitive plural neuter G3588
- ἔργων ἔργον noun · genitive plural neuter G2041
Punctuation is editorial — the manuscripts carry none.
See also 5
- 1 Thessalonians 1:3 remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.
- Hebrews 11:17 By faith, Abraham, being tested, offered up Isaac. Yes, he who had gladly received the promises was offering up his only born son,
- Galatians 5:6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision amounts to anything, but faith working through love.
- 1 John 2:5 But God's love has most certainly been perfected in whoever keeps his word. This is how we know that we are in him:
- James 2:18 Yes, a man will say, "You have faith, and I have works." Show me your faith without works, and I will show you my faith by my works.
But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?closest in meaning to what you asked
Greek Nestle 1904
θέλεις δὲ γνῶναι, ὦ ἄνθρωπε κενέ, ὅτι ἡ πίστις χωρὶς τῶν ἔργων ἀργή ἐστιν;
- θέλεις θέλω verb · present active indicative, 2nd person singular G2309
- δὲ δέ conjunction G1161
- γνῶναι, γινώσκω verb · aorist active infinitive G1097
- ὦ ὦ interjection G5599
- ἄνθρωπε ἄνθρωπος noun · vocative singular masculine G444
- κενέ, κενός adjective · vocative singular masculine G2756
- ὅτι ὅτι conjunction G3754
- ἡ ὁ article · nominative singular feminine G3588
- πίστις πίστις noun · nominative singular feminine G4102
- χωρὶς χωρίς adverb G5565
- τῶν ὁ article · genitive plural neuter G3588
- ἔργων ἔργον noun · genitive plural neuter G2041
Punctuation is editorial — the manuscripts carry none.
See also 5
- James 2:17 Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself.
- James 2:26 For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.
- Proverbs 12:11 He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.
- Romans 1:21 Because knowing God, they didn't glorify him as God, and didn't give thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.
- Psalm 94:8 Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?
You see then that by works a man is justified, and not only by faith.closest in meaning to what you asked
Greek Nestle 1904
ὁρᾶτε ὅτι ἐξ ἔργων δικαιοῦται ἄνθρωπος καὶ οὐκ ἐκ πίστεως μόνον.
- ὁρᾶτε ὁράω verb · present active indicative, 2nd person plural G3708
- ὅτι ὅτι conjunction G3754
- ἐξ ἐκ preposition G1537
- ἔργων ἔργον noun · genitive plural neuter G2041
- δικαιοῦται δικαιόω verb · present middle or passive indicative, 3rd person singular G1344
- ἄνθρωπος ἄνθρωπος noun · nominative singular masculine G444
- καὶ καί conjunction G2532
- οὐκ οὐ particle · nominative G3756
- ἐκ ἐκ preposition G1537
- πίστεως πίστις noun · genitive singular feminine G4102
- μόνον. μόνος adverb G3440
Punctuation is editorial — the manuscripts carry none.
See also 2
- James 2:15 And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food,
- James 2:21 Wasn't Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?
Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself.closest in meaning to what you asked
Greek Nestle 1904
οὕτως καὶ ἡ πίστις, ἐὰν μὴ ἔχῃ ἔργα, νεκρά ἐστιν καθ’ ἑαυτήν.
- οὕτως οὕτω adverb G3779
- καὶ καί conjunction G2532
- ἡ ὁ article · nominative singular feminine G3588
- πίστις, πίστις noun · nominative singular feminine G4102
- ἐὰν ἐάν conditional G1437
- μὴ μή particle · nominative G3361
- ἔχῃ ἔχω verb · present active subjunctive, 3rd person singular G2192
- ἔργα, ἔργον noun · accusative plural neuter G2041
- νεκρά νεκρός adjective · nominative singular feminine G3498
- ἐστιν εἰμί verb · present active indicative, 3rd person singular G1510
- καθ’ κατά preposition G2596
- ἑαυτήν. ἑαυτοῦ reflexive pronoun G1438
Punctuation is editorial — the manuscripts carry none.
See also 5
- James 2:26 For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.
- 2 Peter 1:5 Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;
- James 2:19 You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe—and shudder.
- 1 Corinthians 13:13 But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.
- James 2:14 What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?
From the interpretive tradition
There is more mercy in Christ than sin in us.
Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance.
A worked example. Ask your own and it starts a new thread.