16. and one from amongst you say to them, Go in peace, be warmed and filled; but give not to them the needful things for the body, what is the profit?
17. So also faith, if it have not works, is dead by itself.
18. But some one will say, Thou hast faith and I have works. Shew me thy faith without works, and I from my works will shew thee my faith.
19. Thou believest that God is one. Thou doest well. The demons even believe, and tremble.
20. But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
21. Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?
22. Thou seest that faith wrought with his works, and that by works faith was perfected.
23. And the scripture was fulfilled which says, Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness, and he was called Friend of God.
24. Ye see that a man is justified on the principle of works, and not on the principle of faith only.
25. But was not in like manner also Rahab the harlot justified on the principle of works, when she had received the messengers and put them forth by another way?
26. For as the body without a spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.