James 2:8-26

8Indeed, if you fulfill the royal law prescribed in the Scripture, Love your neighbor as yourself, you are doing well.

9If, however, you show favoritism, you commit sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.

10For whoever keeps the entire law, and yet stumbles at one point, is guilty of breaking it all.

11For he who said, Do not commit adultery, also said, Do not murder. So if you do not commit adultery, but you murder, you are a lawbreaker.

12Speak and act as those who are to be judged by the law of freedom.

13For judgment is without mercy to the one who has not shown mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

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.