James 2:14-26

Darby Translation

¹⁴ What [is] the profit, my brethren, if any one say he have faith, but have not works? can faith save him?

¹⁵ Now if a brother or a sister is naked and destitute of daily food,

¹⁶ and one from amongst you say to them, Go in peace, be warmed and filled; but give not to them the needful things for the body, what [is] the profit?

¹⁷ So also faith, if it have not works, is dead by itself.

¹⁸ But some one will say, *Thou* hast faith and *I* have works. Shew me thy faith without works, and *I* from my works will shew thee my faith.

¹⁹ *Thou* believest that God is one. Thou doest well. The demons even believe, and tremble.

²⁰ But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?

²¹ Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?

²² Thou seest that faith wrought with his works, and that by works faith was perfected.

²³ And the scripture was fulfilled which says, Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness, and he was called Friend of God.

²⁴ Ye see that a man is justified on the principle of works, and not on the principle of faith only.

²⁵ But was not in like manner also Rahab the harlot justified on the principle of works, when she had received the messengers and put [them] forth by another way?

²⁶ For as the body without a spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.