James 2:14–26

¹⁴What shall it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but hath not works? Shall faith be able to save him?

¹⁵And if a brother or sister be naked and want daily food:

¹⁶And one of you say to them: Go in peace, be ye warmed and filled; yet give them not those things that are necessary for the body, what shall it profit?

¹⁷So faith also, if it have not works, is dead in itself.

¹⁸But some man will say: Thou hast faith, and I have works. Shew me thy faith without works; and I will shew thee, by works, my faith.

¹⁹Thou believest that there is one God. Thou dost well: the devils also believe and tremble.

²⁰But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?

²¹Was not Abraham our father justified by works, offering up Isaac his son upon the altar?

²²Seest thou that faith did cooperate with his works and by works faith was made perfect?

²³And the scripture was fulfilled, saying: Abraham believed God, and it was reputed to him to justice, and he was called the friend of God.

²⁴Do you see that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only?

²⁵And in like manner also Rahab the harlot, was not she justified by works, receiving the messengers and sending them out another way?

²⁶For even as the body without the spirit is dead: so also faith without works is dead.