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17 So faith by itself, if it has no good deeds to show, is dead.
18 But someone may say, "You have faith, and I good deeds." Show me your faith without any good deeds, and I will show you my faith by my good deeds.
19 Do you believe in one God? Very well! So do the demons, and they shudder.
20 But do you want proof, my senseless friend, that faith without good deeds amounts to nothing?
21 Was not our forefather Abraham made upright for his good deeds, for offering his son Isaac on the altar?
22 You see that in his case faith and good deeds worked together; faith found its highest expression in good deeds,
23 and so the Scripture came true that says, "Abraham had faith in God, and it was credited to him as uprightness, and he was called God's friend."
24 You see a man is made upright by his good deeds and not simply by having faith.
25 Was not even Rahab the prostitute made upright for her good deeds, in entertaining the scouts and sending them off by a different road?
26 Just as the body without the spirit is dead, faith is dead without good deeds.