James says that faith without works is dead, the good works demanded necessarily accompany saving faith. Scholars of this persuasion would repudiate the view of Hodges et al. that the good works required in James relate only to rewards or to a fruitful life on this earth. Instead, they would maintain that good works are inevitably connected with genuine faith. Nor would they believe that their view was some kind of works-righteousness, for the good works in the lives of believers are the fruit of