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Faith and Works: Living Faith

James 2:14-26

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Chapter 2
14 What benefit, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but has no works? Can faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister is naked and lacking daily food, 16 But if someone among you says to them, "Go in peace, warm yourselves and be filled," but you do not give them the necessities of the body—what benefit? 17 In this way also the faith, if it does not have works, is dead in itself. 18 But 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." 19 You believe that God is one? You do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder. 20 Do you want to know, O empty man, that faith without works is idle? 21 Wasn't Abraham our father justified by works when he brought Isaac his son up on the altar? 22 You see that the faith worked together with his works, and from the works the faith was perfected. 23 And the Scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness"—and he was called a friend of God. 24 See that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone. 25 Likewise, Rahab the prostitute was justified by works when she received the angels and sent them out by another way? 26 For just as the body without spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.