Jam 2:17-26 | ESV | STEP | So also faith by itself , if it does not have works , is dead .

James 2:17-26

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 ^aapart from your works, and I will show you my faith ^bby my works. 19 ^cYou believe that God is one; you do well. Even ^dthe demons believe—and shudder! 20 Do you want to be shown, you foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless? 21 ^eWas not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar? 22 You see that ^ffaith was active along with his works, and faith was completed ^gby his works; 23 and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, ^h“Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”—and he was called a ⁱfriend 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 ^jRahab the prostitute justified by works ^kwhen 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.