James 2:14-24

141What use is it, 2my brethren, if someone says he has faith but he has no works? Can 3that faith save him? 154If a brother or sister is without clothing and in need of daily food, 16and one of you says to them, “5Go in peace, 6be warmed and be filled,” and yet you do not give them what is necessary for their body, what use is that? 17Even so 7faith, if it has no works, is 8dead, being by itself.

189But someone 10may well say, “You have faith and I have works; show me your 11faith without the works, and I will 12show you my faith 13by my works.” 19You believe that 1415God is one. 16You do well; 17the demons also believe, and shudder. 20But are you willing to recognize, 18you foolish fellow, that 19faith without works is useless? 2120Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up Isaac his son on the altar? 22You see that 21faith was working with his works, and 22as a result of the 23works, faith was 24perfected; 23and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “25And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness,” and he was called 26the friend of God. 24You see that a man is justified by works and not by faith alone.