Jam 2:14-20 | NASB1995 | STEP | What use is it, my brethren , if someone says he has faith but he has no works ? Can that faith save him?

James 2:14-20

Faith and Works

14 ^aWhat use is it, ^bmy brethren, if someone says he has faith but he has no works? Can ^{▼▼ Lit the}that faith save him? 15 ^dIf a brother or sister is without clothing and in need of daily food, 16 and one of you says to them, ^e“Go in peace, ^{▼▼ Or warm yourselves and fill yourselves}be warmed and be filled,” and yet you do not give them what is necessary for their body, what use is that? 17 Even so ^gfaith, if it has no works, is ^{▼▼ Or dead by its own standards}dead, being by itself.

18 ⁱBut someone ^{▼▼ Lit will}may well say, “You have faith and I have works; show me your ^kfaith without the works, and I will ^lshow you my faith ^mby my works.” 19 You believe that ^{▼▼ One early ms reads there is one God
,} ^oGod is one. ^pYou do well; ^qthe demons also believe, and shudder. 20 But are you willing to recognize, ^ryou foolish fellow, that ^sfaith without works is useless?