- 2:14What is the profit, my brothers, if anyone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him?
- 2:15If a brother or sister is without clothing and lacks daily food,
- 2:16And any one of you says to them, Go in peace, be warmed and filled, yet you do not give them the necessities of the body, what is the profit?
- 2:17So also faith, if it does not have works, is dead in itself.
- 2:18But someone will say, You have faith, and I have works; show me your faith without the works, and I will show you my faith by my works.
- 2:19You believe that God is one. You do well; the demons also believe and shudder.
- 2:20But are you willing to know, O vain man, that faith without its works is useless?
- 2:21Was not Abraham our father justified by works in that he offered up Isaac his son upon the altar?
- 2:22You see that faith worked together with his works, and by these works faith was perfected.
- 2:23And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "And Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness"; and he was called the friend of God.
- 2:24You see that a man is justified by works and not by faith only.
- 2:25And in like manner was not also Rahab the harlot justified by works in that she received the messengers and sent them out by a different way?
- 2:26For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.