14What is the gain, my brothers, if someone claims to have faith but does not have works? Can faith save him?15If a brother or a sister is naked and lacks the daily food,16and one of you says to them, 'Go in peace, be warmed and fed,' yet does not give them the things necessary for the body, what is the gain?17So also 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 the works, and I will show you my faith by my works.19You believe that God is one; you do well. The demons also believe and shudder.20But do you wish to know, O empty man, that faith without works is idle?21Abraham our father was not justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar.22You see that his faith cooperated with his works and that faith was made complete by the works.23And the scripture was fulfilled that says, 'Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,' and he was called the friend of God.24You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.25In the same way Rahab the prostitute was also justified by works when she welcomed the angels and sent them out by another way.26For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.