2 ¹⁴ What does it profit, my brethren, if a man says he has faith but has not works? Can his faith save him? 2 ¹⁵ If a brother or sister is ill-clad and in lack of daily food, 2 ¹⁶ and one of you says to them, "Go in peace, be warmed and filled," without giving them the things needed for the body, what does it profit? 2 ¹⁷ So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead.

2 ¹⁸ But some one will say, "You have faith and I have works." Show me your faith apart from your works, and I by my works will show you my faith. 2 ¹⁹ You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe - and shudder. 2 ²⁰ Do you want to be shown, you shallow man, that faith apart from works is barren? 2 ²¹ Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he offered his son Isaac upon the altar? 2 ²² You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by works, 2 ^{23 [ Gn.15.6. ]} and the scripture was fulfilled which says, "Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness"; and he was called the friend of God. 2 ²⁴ You see that a man is justified by works and not by faith alone. 2 ²⁵ And in the same way was not also Rahab the harlot justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out another way? 2 ²⁶ For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so faith apart from works is dead.