14 What is the advantage, my brethren, if a man profess to have faith, but hath not works; can faith save him?
15 Now if a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,
16 and should one of you say to them, Go in peace, be warm, be replenished with food: yet if ye give them not the necessaries for their body; what doth it avail?
17 So also faith, if it hath not works, is dead itself.
18 Perhaps a man will say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith by thy works, and I will shew thee by my works my faith.
19 Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe and tremble.
20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
21 Was not our father Abraham justified by works, when he offered up Isaac his son upon the altar?
22 Thou seest that faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith consummated.
23 And the scripture was fulfilled, which saith, "Abraham believed God, and it was imputed to him for righteousness;" and he was called "the friend of God."
24 Observe therefore that by works a man is justified, and not by faith merely.
25 But was not Rahab the harlot in like manner justified by works, when she entertained the messengers, and sent them away by a different road?
26 For as the body without breath is dead, so faith without works is dead also.