James 2:15-26

151If a brother or sister is without clothing and in need of daily food, 16and one of you says to them, “2Go in peace, 3be warmed and be filled,” yet you do not give them what is necessary for their body, what use is that? 17In the same way, 4faith also, if it has no works, is 5dead, being by itself.

186But someone 7may well say, “You have faith and I have works; show me your 8faith without the works, and I will 9show you my faith 10by my works.” 19You believe that 1112God is one. 13You do well; 14the demons also believe, and shudder. 20But are you willing to acknowledge, 15you foolish person, that 16faith without works is useless? 2117Was our father Abraham not justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar? 22You see that 18faith was working with his works, and 19as a result of the 20works, faith was 21perfected; 23and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “22And Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,” and he was called a 23friend of God. 24You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone. 25In the same way, was 24Rahab the prostitute not justified by works also 25when she received the messengers and sent them out by another way? 26For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also 26faith without works is dead.