CLV(i)
14 What is the benefit, my brethren, if anyone should be saying he has faith, yet may have no works? That faith can not save him."
15 If a brother or sister should be belonging to the naked, and lacking nourishment for the day,
16 yet someone from among you may be saying to them, "Go away in peace, be warmed and satisfied,yet you may not be giving them the requisites for the body, what is the benefit?
17 Thus, also, is faith, if it should not have works: it is dead by itself."
18 But someone will be declaring, "You have faith and I have works.Show me your faith apart from the works and I shall be showing you my faith by my works."
19 You are believing that God is one. Ideally are you doing. The demons also are believing and are shuddering.
20 Now are you wanting to know, O empty man, that faith apart from works is dead?
21 Abraham, our father, was he not justified by works when offering up his son Isaac on the altar?
22 You are observing that faith worked together with his works, and by works was faith perfected."
23 And fulfilled was the scripture which is saying, Now "Abraham believes God, and it is reckoned to him for righteousness,and he was called "the friend of God."
24 You see that by works a man is being justified, and not by faith only."
25 Now likewise, was not Rahab the prostitute also justified by works when entertaining the messengers and ejecting them by a different way?
26 For even as the body apart from spirit is dead, thus also faith apart from works is dead."