James 2: 14 - 24, 26
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What does it profit, my brethren, if a man says he has faith but has not works? Can his faith save him?
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| 15
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If a brother or sister is ill-clad and in lack of daily food,
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and one of you says to them, "Go in peace, be warmed and filled," without giving them the things needed for the body, what does it profit?
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So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead.
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| 18
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But some one will say, "You have faith and I have works." Show me your faith apart from your works, and I by my works will show you my faith.
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| 19
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You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe -- and shudder.
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| 20
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Do you want to be shown, you shallow man, that faith apart from works is barren?
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| 21
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Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he offered his son Isaac upon the altar?
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You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by works,
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and the scripture was fulfilled which says, "Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness"; and he was called the friend of God.
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| 24
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You see that a man is justified by works and not by faith alone.
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For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so faith apart from works is dead. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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