[2:14] What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him?
[2:15] If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food,
[2:16] and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that?
[2:17] So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.
[2:18] But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.
[2:19] You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder!
[2:20] Do you want to be shown, you foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless?
[2:21] Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar?
[2:22] You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by his works;
[2:23] and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”—and he was called a friend of God.
[2:24] You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.
[2:25] And in the same way was not also Rahab the prostitute justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out by another way?
[2:26] For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.