Faith and Deeds

¹⁴ What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds?^(A) Can such faith save them? ¹⁵ Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food.^{(B) 16} If one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it?^{(C) 17} In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.^(D)

¹⁹ You believe that there is one God.^(A) Good! Even the demons believe that^(B)—and shudder.

²⁴ You see that a person is considered righteous by what they do and not by faith alone.

²⁶ As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.^(A)