James 2:15-26

New American Standard Bible

¹⁵^(A)If a brother or sister is without clothing and in need of daily food, ¹⁶and one of you says to them, “^(B)Go in peace, ^[a]be warmed and be filled,” yet you do not give them what is necessary for their body, what use is that? ¹⁷In the same way, ^(C)faith also, if it has no works, is ^[b]dead, being by itself.

¹⁸^(D)But someone ^[c]may well say, “You have faith and I have works; show me your ^(E)faith without the works, and I will ^(F)show you my faith ^(G)by my works.” ¹⁹You believe that ^[d]^(H)God is one. ^(I)You do well; ^(J)the demons also believe, and shudder. ²⁰But are you willing to acknowledge, ^(K)you foolish person, that ^(L)faith without works is useless? ²¹^(M)Was our father Abraham not justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar? ²²You see that ^(N)faith was working with his works, and ^[e]as a result of the ^(O)works, faith was ^[f]perfected; ²³and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “^(P)And Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,” and he was called a ^(Q)friend of God. ²⁴You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone. ²⁵In the same way, was ^(R)Rahab the prostitute not justified by works also ^(S)when she received the messengers and sent them out by another way? ²⁶For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also ^(T)faith without works is dead.