Oct. 05, 2025

Jas 2:14  What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? 

Jas 2:15  Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. 

Jas 2:16  If one of you says to them, "Go in peace; keep warm and well fed," but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? 

Jas 2:17  In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead. 

Jas 2:18  But someone will say, "You have faith; I have deeds." Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by my deeds. 

Jas 2:19  You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that—and shudder. 

Jas 2:20  You foolish person, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is useless? 

Jas 2:21  Was not our father Abraham considered righteous for what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar? 

Jas 2:22  You see that his faith and his actions were working together, and his faith was made complete by what he did. 

Jas 2:23  And the scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness," and he was called God's friend. 

Jas 2:24  You see that a person is considered righteous by what they do and not by faith alone. 

Jas 2:25  In the same way, was not even Rahab the prostitute considered righteous for what she did when she gave lodging to the spies and sent them off in a different direction? 

Jas 2:26  As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.