**James 2:14-26 - Revised Standard Version (RSV)**
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Faith without Works Is Dead
<14> What does it profit, my brethren, if a man says he has faith but has not works? Can his faith save him? <15> If a brother or sister is ill-clad and in lack of daily food, <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 does it profit? <17> So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead. <18> But some one will say, "You have faith and I have works." Show me your faith apart from your works, and I by my works will show you my faith. <19> You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder. <20> Do you want to be shown, you shallow man, that faith apart from works is barren? <21> Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he offered his son Isaac upon the altar? <22> You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by works, <23> and the scripture was fulfilled which says, "Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness"; and he was called the friend of God. <24> You see that a man is justified by works and not by faith alone. <25> And in the same way was not also Rahab the harlot justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out another way? <26> For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so faith apart from works is dead. ```
