Jam 2:14-26 | ESV | STEP | What good is it , my brothers , if someone says he has faith but does not have works ? Can that faith save him ?

James 2:14-26

Faith Without Works Is Dead

14 What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith ^abut does not have works? Can that faith save him? 15 ^bIf a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, 16 ^cand one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good ^{▼▼Or benefit} is that? 17 So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

18 But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith ^eapart from your works, and I will show you my faith ^fby my works. 19 ^gYou believe that God is one; you do well. Even ^hthe demons believe—and shudder! 20 Do you want to be shown, you foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless? 21 ⁱWas not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar? 22 You see that ^jfaith was active along with his works, and faith was completed ^kby his works; 23 and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, ^l“Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”—and he was called a ^mfriend of God. 24 You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone. 25 And in the same way was not also ⁿRahab the prostitute justified by works ^owhen she received the messengers and sent them out by another way? 26 For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.