James 2:14-26
What good is it, my
brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith
save him? If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and
lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in
peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the
body, what good is that? So
also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.
But someone will say, “You
have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I
will show you my faith by my works. You believe that God is
one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder! Do
you want to be shown, you foolish person, that faith apart from works is
useless? Was not Abraham our father justified by works when
he offered up his son Isaac on the altar? You see that faith
was active along with his works, and faith was completed by his works; and
the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was
counted to him as righteousness”—and he was called a friend of God. You
see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone. And
in the same way was not also Rahab the prostitute justified by works when she
received the messengers and sent them out by another way? For
as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is
dead
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