James 2:18 – 26

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