15 (A)If a brother or sister is without clothing and in need of daily food, 16 and one of you says to them, “(B)Go in peace, [a]be warmed and be filled,” yet you do not give them what is necessary for their body, what use is that? 17 In the same way, (C)faith also, if it has no works, is [b]dead, being by itself.

18 (D)But someone [c]may well say, “You have faith and I have works; show me your (E)faith without the works, and I will (F)show you my faith (G)by my works.”

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Footnotes

  1. James 2:16 Or warm yourselves and fill yourselves
  2. James 2:17 Or dead by its own standards
  3. James 2:18 Lit will

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