Faith That Works

¹⁴What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but does not have works? Can such faith save him?

¹⁵If a brother or sister is without clothes and lacks daily food ¹⁶and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, stay warm, and be well fed,” but you don’t give them what the body needs, what good is it?  ¹⁷In the same way faith, if it does not have works, is dead by itself.

¹⁸But someone will say, “You have faith, and I have works.”  Show me your faith without works, and I will show you faith by my works.  ¹⁹You believe that God is one. Good! Even the demons believe #— #and they shudder. 

²⁰Senseless person! Are you willing to learn that faith without works is useless? ²¹Wasn’t Abraham our father justified by works in offering Isaac his son on the altar? ²²You see that faith was active together with his works, and by works, faith was made complete,  ²³and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness, , and he was called God’s friend.  ²⁴You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone. ²⁵In the same way, wasn’t Rahab the prostitute also justified by works in receiving the messengers and sending them out by a different route?  ²⁶For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.